AUTHOR RETURNS TO HIS ORIGINS AND PRESENTS A MACABRE VERSION OF ONE OF THE MOST FRIGHTENING CHARACTERS OF RECENT TIMES 1256. Will was destined to become Earl of Mercia, but he didn't live long enough to inherit the title, having been struck by a strange illness at the age of 16. Yet, despite his death—and his burial—he is far from dead. Throughout the pages, Will's condition is revealed: he exists between life and death. He occasionally hibernates, always waiting for death to call him, and every time he awakens, buried in the ground, he has a brief memory of the first panic he felt in 1349. One of the main differences in Blood is that it is more macabre and dark than current works of the genre. For Wignall, romanticism is important, but it should never override the plot. Thus, he created harrowing scenes, such as those the protagonist faces every time he awakens from hibernation, as well as sinister and dark environments and well-constructed, perverse and unscrupulous characters. • He surprised fantasy fans by creating a universe where the vampire distances himself from the sentimental profile of today and approaches the most famous version of them: the dark Count Dracula.
