He has no choice but to die. How he dies is up to him.

Verlaine is a vampire, the last of his kind. He knows that the people who killed his brethren are coming for him. Alienated and alone, he decides to bow out in a manner of his own choosing.

It is Walpurgis Night. Before it is over, Verlaine will have left a trail of death that will never be forgotten.

Patrick Whittaker is winner of the British Fantasy Society's Short Story Competition 2009. He has directed a number of short films, several of which have garnered awards for him.

He currently resides in Blackpool, England where he works as a government phone monkey.