“There are vampires and vampires, and the ones that suck blood aren’t the worst.”

— Fritz Leiber

Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
Source: “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 240)

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American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction 1910–1992

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