The Reformed Vampire Support Group Characters

Quite ContraryOur main girl Nina is many things, but happy to be a vampire is not one of them. Since she is a vampire, though, this leads to her acting cranky, stubborn, and generally irritable. We...

Meek MusicianLike Nina, Dave was infected during Casimir's "vamp gone wild" spree in 1973. He was nineteen at the time, and had been playing a gig—he was so drunk at the time of his infection tha...

Reliable Religious GuyFather Ramon is the reformed vampire support group's spiritual advisor. Nina characterizes him as "a decent man" (3.14) and gives us this description: "With his solid build, s...

Mom With an AttitudeNina's mom isn't in the best health. She's a smoker, and she's getting old, and here's how she's described: "She had the hoarse rasp and yellow fingertips of a chronic smoker, h...

Fearless Leader?The self-proclaimed leader of the reformed vampire support group, Sanford's always on a soapbox—well, at least according to Nina anyway. She calls him "a humorless, opinionated kn...

Mr. MisunderstoodHorace is kind of odd, that's for sure. Despite the fact that the vamps are supposed to be in hiding, he dresses "in a Gothic assortment of crushed velvet, black satin, and patent...

Wild SideReuben grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, that's for sure. The seventh son in a dysfunctional family, he was cutting school and drinking before the McKinnons found and kidnapped him...

Ain't No BuffyNefley is kind of a loser. He doesn't have many friends, and he fills the gap with paranormal fanboy speculation.When Nina and Dave first encounter him, he's passed out at Father Ramo...

Gladys is the queen of complaining, and her health is always in the dumps, even for a vampire. Nina thinks: "Gladys smells like a hippie, because she's always treating her manifold health problems...

Bridget has a hard un-life, but we don't hear her complaining much. Fittingly, she was a nun tending to the sick when Gladys infected her in the early 1900s—nuns aren't really known for their bel...

Nobody likes Casimir. Did you catch that? We'll say it again: Nobody likes Casimir. According to Nina, this is because dude is majorly creepy and inherently unlikeable:He would go on and on about '...

George is not the brightest kid out there. Unlike Horace, though, he at least makes an effort to blend in, like by "wearing the kind of baggy, oversized, swamp-colored clothes that you see on most...

When Nina first runs into Dermid, he looks pretty shady: "he was large and sunburned, with a vicious scar on his cheek. His oily blond hair had been combed straight back" (10. 28). He also—creepi...

From the time the vamps first work out that Barry is buying silver bullets, they figure this dude might be a little dangerous. But oh, if they only knew…When they meet Barry at his place in the o...

The Cab DriverThis lucky fellow gets to shepherd Horace and Nina to Nefley's place. He asks if they're "Going to a party" (20.78) because they're dressed like vampires. He must be used to dealing w...