Sangster shrugged. “We’re watching,” he said. “But she hasn’t turned up.”
This didn’t happen: Alex Van Helsing didn’t stop all his vampire hunting training and turn instead to a quiet life of contemplation and study. That might have happened—in an infinite universe that had to happen sometimes—but it didn’t happen this time.
Because far below the waters of the lake, the Scholomance had other plans.
“We will each write a ghost story,” said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to…. Poor Polidori had some terrible idea about a skull-headed lady, who was so punished for peeping through a key-hole—what to see I forget—something very shocking and wrong of course; but when she was reduced to a worse condition than the renowned Tom of Coventry, he did not know what to do with her, and was obliged to despatch her to the tomb of the Capulets, the only place for which she was fitted….
I busied myself to think of a story.
—Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Introduction, 1831 ed.
About the Author
JASON HENDERSON has written for games and comic books, including the Activision game Wolfenstein, the vampire action comic series Sword of Dracula, and the manga series Psy-Comm. ALEX VAN HELSING: VAMPIRE RISING is his first novel for teens. He lives with his family in Grapevine, Texas. You can visit him online at www.alexvanhelsing.com.
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ALEX VAN HELSING: VAMPIRE RISING. Copyright © 2010 by Jason Henderson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Henderson, Jason, 1971-
Vampire rising / by Jason Henderson.—1st ed.
p. cm.—(Alex Van Helsing; bk. 1)
Summary: At a boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex Van Helsing learns that vampires are real, that he has a natural ability to sense them, and that an agency called the Polidorium has been helping his family fight them since 1821.
ISBN 978-0-06-195099-5
[1. Horror stories. 2. Vampires—Fiction. 3. Supernatural—Fiction. 4. Boarding schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Switzerland—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H37955Vam 2010 2009039663
[Fic]—dc22 CIP
AC
EPub Edition © February 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199338-1
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