Filth Eaters Sarah Mackenzie All Forest wants to do

All Forest wants to do is talk to the author of his story about a few edits to his character arc--he has no idea what kind of narrative stakes he is up against

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Filth Eaters Sarah Mackenzie All Forest wants to doBy: Ito Romo Published by Deep Vellum Publishing, 2026 05 19 A high strung and inventive literary horror that will delight fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Mariana Enriquez, Ito Romo's debut novel traces the thousand year lineage of a new kind of vampire the mestizo Filth Eater. Granada, 1849. After centuries of scrounging in the shadows, the vampire Radams discovers an ancient Aztec codex that reveals the vampires of the "New World" live a more