In an era where secrets are nearly impossible to keep, The True Story of Vampires dares to ask: how do ancient beings survive when the world no longer forgets?
Author Michael Galitzine drops a mythic tale into the hard light of modern London, where nothing stays hidden for long. Surveillance cameras peer down from street corners, digital footprints never vanish, and even whispers on the wind can go viral overnight. It’s the worst time in history to be something that shouldn’t exist.
And yet—Mikael does. The first vampire. The last secret worth dying for.
When Legends Live in Plain Sight
Mikael, now known as Mike, isn’t sleeping in crypts or avoiding crosses. He’s navigating city streets, shielding his family, and hiding from a world addicted to exposure. Every smartphone is a potential threat. Every slip of the tongue, a spark waiting to ignite centuries of chaos.
Galitzine makes this clash between old and new feel unsettlingly real. In Mike’s world, ancient rules battle modern obsession. He’s a relic—alive, alert, and aware that even one mistake could unravel everything.
Because if the world learns what he truly is, there won’t be time to explain. Just time to run.
Detective Brood: The Human Threat to Immortal Secrets
What makes The True Story of Vampires so compelling is that the danger doesn’t just come from fangs or fire—it comes from the very human need to uncover what’s hidden.
Detective Brood is a bloodhound in a trench coat, a man driven by suspicion, and he’s closer than anyone has ever been to discovering the truth about Mike. But Brood doesn’t believe in monsters. Not yet. What he believes in is evidence.
And every step he takes brings him closer to something the world isn’t ready to see.
Galitzine crafts their tension like a psychological chess match—one grounded not in horror, but in intellect. One mistake, one clue, one miscalculated encounter—and a thousand-year secret could collapse.
The Curse of Remaining Unknown
Mike isn’t hiding because he’s evil. He’s hiding because the truth doesn’t belong to the modern world. How do you explain to a digital audience that you were born in an era without electricity? That you remember a time before borders, before belief systems, before the world began dividing itself into certainties?
What’s most haunting about Mike isn’t his immortality. It’s his isolation. He’s watched centuries pass, cultures rise and fall, technology overtake magic. But he’s still here—unchanged. Not because he wants to be, but because he has to be.
Revealing his truth would destroy him. But worse, it might destroy everything around him.
A Vampire Tale with a Pulse on the Present
Unlike traditional vampire stories, Galitzine doesn’t revel in myth for myth’s sake. He doesn’t lean into tropes or archetypes. Instead, he threads vampire lore into the framework of a world obsessed with knowing everything, all the time.
In this way, The True Story of Vampires feels like a warning. A reflection. A what-if that suddenly doesn’t feel so far-fetched. In a culture that no longer accepts ambiguity, how do the ambiguous survive?
And more importantly—what happens when they finally say enough?
Old Souls, New Stakes
Galitzine’s genius lies in the novel’s quiet tension. This isn’t about battles—it’s about exposure. Not about survival—but erasure. Mike isn’t fighting with claws. He’s fighting with silence. With caution. With a heart that still remembers loss and a world that no longer gives second chances.
The True Story of Vampires challenges us to rethink the supernatural—not as spectacle, but as symbolism. What truths have we buried beneath centuries of myth? What monsters have we created just to justify our own fears?
And in a world where every secret is one screenshot from destruction, can anyone—vampire or human—truly stay hidden?
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