Midnight Blue: Sonja Blue Collection

It must have been a first edition of Sunglasses After Dark (the first of the three books in this edition) that I first read so many years ago. I picked it up off the dusty shelf of a discount bookstore, wedged anonymously onto a shelf with dozens of other books in horror fiction. After losing it as a loaner, I would return again and again to the same bookstore as if it was the magical author of the book I would grow to love.

We are in an era of multiple television shows all struggling to depict the sexiest leather-clad blood-sucking night-fiend, but all were inspired by the story of Sonya Blue.