Midnight is a very dangerous time of night...Vampires are real. They exist. Certain secret departments of the U.S. government know this. Organized crime knows this. And in the cities of New Barrington and West Sussex, they rule. Enter MONTGOMERY QUINN, the immortal they call "The Adversary," a defender of the innocent, a relentless hunter of vampires.Midnight just got a lot more dangerous.
Joseph Armstead has been a lifelong fan of horror, science fiction and suspense fiction, in both the printed media and in cinematic form. He has always enjoyed creating interesting characters and telling stories. His education and training in the sciences inspired him to develop a more Reality-based and plausible outlook on traditional horror-suspense storytelling tropes. Cliches annoy him. The more a novel or story is firmly rooted in Reality, the more easily a reader can connect with the events and characters therein. He decries the "gore-for-gore's-sakes" school of horror fiction, seeing torture-porn as an easy cop-out for lazy storytelling. His writing centers on the themes of personal and societal alienation, xenophobia and interspecies racism, dark conspiracies, criminal violence and renegade scientific technologies. As a post-postmodernist poet, he has been published in various literary publications. Mr. Armstead is also a member of both the American Mathematical and World Futurist societies.
He currently lives in northern California, near the shark-frequented waters of the Pacific
