change. The final unusual element is that the vampires have created a
corporation, the Darkhour Corporation, as a shield to protect them. The Board of
Directors are their ruling body.
Tell us about mystery games and what do they have to do with vampires?
Mystery games are basically theme parties where your guests come in character and
attempt to solve a mystery, usually a murder. I have been writing my own mystery
games for years for special get-togethers. My first novel, THE MURDER GAME, is
about a mystery game designer whose game goes murderously wrong. Right now I am
exploring the possibility of creating a game system, using the power of the Internet, that
would allow the purchaser to custom design their own game. Darkhour Vampires is one
of the game scenarios. You would be able to choose your favorite Darkhour Vampire to
play. It is different from role playing as it revolves around a mystery to solve. Through
September 30, 2002, you can help by filling out a simple questionnaire about mystery
games. When you do, you will be entered to win a free autograph copy of either
CAPTIVITY or THE MURDER GAME. http://www.playmurder.com/survey.htm
BOOK REVIEW
CAPTIVITY (DARKHOUR VAMPIRES: VOLUME ONE)
By Linda Suzane
Published by Wings Press
Vampires were the last thing eighteen-year-old Wade Kain and his two friends, Mike
and Josh, expected when they went camping in the Oregon woods. Cassandra and her
two get, Panther and Wolf, brutally murder Wade's friends. Cassandra takes Wade
back to her lair, where she seduced the naive young man, binding him to her with blood
and sex, pleasure and pain.
A newborn vampire stalks the streets of San Francisco. Thom Barber died in a car
accident, but the morgue was backed up, so he got up and walked out. Dr. Donovan
Reed must stop the newborn before the bloodlust drives Thom to kill. He rescues Thom
and takes him back to his clinic in rural Oregon, where Donovan helps the newborn
understand and cope with his new existence.
When Donovan hears the report of two badly mauled bodies and a missing camper, he
is certain that Cassandra is involved. Almost 50 years ago, Cassandra was sentenced
to the mountain lair for the murder of Donovan's love Amanda and their young
daughter. All these years Donovan has watched, frustrated that the rest of the vampires
would allow Cassandra to be as wanton as she wants, just as long as it doesn't attract
attention to the vampires. When a woman is kidnapped and the suspect looks like
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