Winner of the 2012 Laine Cunningham Novel Award! "Stephen Colbert meets Stephen King." —Book Nerd's Brain Candy Withrow Surrett is more than just his neighborhood's resident curmudgeon. He's the self-declared vampire lord of North Carolina, he bakes a mean batch of biscuits, and he's at a meeting of his homeowner's association. When the dead rise, which will Withrow's neighbors find the creatures outside or the monster who might be their only hope? Across the state, Jennifer McCordy is a genius stuck in a dead-end job, waiting for opportunity to knock and starting to think maybe it went to the wrong address. When Jennifer takes matters in hand to save herself, will the people around her trust her competence or surrender to their own prejudices? And when Withrow and Jennifer meet, will anything survive? Perishables is a sometimes-funny, sometimes-terrifying, utterly original novel in three parts about reclusive vampires, reluctant heroes, questionable potlucks, late-night electronics sales, retail hell, unexpected friendships, and post-apocalyptic recipes. It's the first in the five-book series The Withrow Chronicles, which tell the story of a sarcastic gay vampire and his dog, his go-go boy cousin, and the witches, ghosts, demons, and robots they meet along the way to confronting conspiracies, mysteries, and all manner of interconnected troubles. Fans of The Black Knight Chronicles, The Tome of Bill, and Fred, the Vampire Accountant will love this series.

Book 2 of the side-splitting vampire comedy The Withrow Chronicles. Withrow Surrett, the most sarcastic vampire for a country mile, makes an annual Appalachian pilgrimage to keep tabs on nocturnal colleagues and his last living friend from mortal days. What should be a quiet week among familiar faces quickly fills with undead rednecks, folk magic, murder, a rookie detective and Withrow's own psychotic cousin who insists on trying to help. Because everybody’s got THAT cousin, even a vampire. As he chases the phantoms of conspiracy and paranoia across moonlit forests, abandoned factories, shadowy back roads and seedy bars - all the quiet little places humans fear to tread - Withrow also struggles with who he wants to be. Can a monster find a place among family and friends? Fans of The Black Knight Chronicles, The Tome of Bill, and Fred, the Vampire Accountant will love this series.

THE ACTION-PACKED CONCLUSION TO THE WITHROW CHRONICLES! Withrow, Roderick, the Technopagans, the Book People, and all the rest of Withrow's friends, allies, and accomplices are back again to bring the fight to their enemies—and to finish it once and for all! The elder vampires have issued their challenge and Withrow has taken them up on it. Now he and the rest of the gang have teamed up to go to where they've always known they shouldn't go: the stronghold of the elders, a gated community on the outskirts of Charlotte, North Carolina. Tucked away behind the high walls and locked gates of their unholy fortress, the elders stand ready to spring their villainy on the unsuspecting modern age and only Withrow stands in their way. Withrow, Roderick, Jennifer, and their friends know they have only one chance to stop these ancient evils from roaring out of the past—and it will take risking everything and everyone they hold dear if they're to succeed. Join the fight alongside these unlikely heroes as they risk, life, limb, souls, and sanity itself in a no-holds-barred free-for-all against the monsters who stand ready to re-enslave the world!