Stainless

Justine is a vampire. Keith just lives like one.

An ex-junkie and ex-rock star — he’s let go of his ambitions, his hands mangled by his dead ex’s own jealous ex. It’s true that Justine has been around for a few centuries and Keith barely three decades, but they’re good for each other. Justine is teaching Keith to take the long view; Keith is reminding her how it feels to be alive. Yet a cohort of criminals, desperate artists, dead-enders, hangers-on, and wanna-bes, undead and otherwise, threaten their curious union. Can love stay untainted in a world of monsters?

First published in 1996, Todd Grimson’s Stainless is a noir fantasia, a symphony of bloody horror, and a woozy, erotic tour of night-side L.A. [publisher's note]