A Dark Season Prequel On the battlefields on the First World War, US soldier Joe Hart meets a man who is going to offer him more than he could ever hope for, and then take the one thing that he cares about. From Passchendaele in 1917 to a farm in Kentucky in the 1950s, and then on to a hospital late at night in the 1990s, this is the story of Joe Hart's encounters with Patrick, the last vampire. A prequel to the Dark Season series, 20th Century Vampire explains what Patrick was doing in the years before the original Dark Season books. Questions are answered, but new questions are asked. And everything leads to a fateful night in a dead-end town, where a young girl decides to walk home along from a party. Each book in the Dark Season series is approximately 20,000 words long. Contains violence, swearing and moderate sexual references. This book is best read after you have read the first series of Dark Season.