The Lesser Dead

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Copyright © 2014 by Christopher Buehlman.

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eBook ISBN: 978-0-698-14632-7

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Buehlman, Christopher.

The lesser dead / Christopher Buehlman. — Berkley hardcover edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-425-27261-9 (hardcover)

1. Vampires—Fiction. 2. Nineteen seventies—Fiction. 3. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3602.U3395L47 2014

813’.6—dc22

2014016672

FIRST EDITION: October 2014

Cover photographs: woman © Joanna Jankowski / Arcangel Images;

abstract texture © Ensuper/Shutterstock.

Cover design by Judith Lagerman.

Endpaper image © sorsillo/iStock.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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