Tessa Gratton is the author of The Queens of Innis Lear and Lady Hotspur as well as the original fairy tale Strange Grace and Night Shine. She's on this episode of Vampires Never Get Old to talk about the first vampires we love, and The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez, as well as what went into writing her vampire short story "Seven Nights for Dying." What would make us want to become vampires? Listen and find out.

Also on this episode: 

• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
• Anne Rice
• The Vampires Diaries 
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• Night Shine by Tessa Gratton

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