A Guest Without a Shadow

January 1894. The Carpathian Mountains. A snowstorm has just buried the only road out.

Seven strangers have been lured to the Iron Crown Hotel by the dying Count Vrolok - paid handsomely to attend a gathering whose true purpose none of them understand. When the Count is found dead the following morning, locked in his room with no sign of a killer, the guests realise they are not just snowbound. They are trapped with something that does not use doors.

Told entirely through the private journals, letters, medical reports, and desperate telegrams of those present, A Guest Without a Shadow is a locked-room mystery wrapped inside a vampire horror - in the tradition of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Each narrator sees a different piece of the truth. None of them sees enough.

The soldier suspects the nun. The doctor suspects the madman. The madman knows exactly what is happening - and no one will listen to him.

And the monster? The monster has been in plain sight since the first page.

Perfect for fans of: Dracula · Gothic horror · Epistolary fiction · Victorian mysteries · Locked-room thrillers