This collection of poems includes themes about very real monsters in the world, metaphorically speaking. The ideas about vampires are that they are without a soul and thus have no conscience, remorse, empathy or compassion. I mention this because this theme was explored in a collection that was published with another poet named Scott Urban who also wrote poems about the macabre. That book was called "Puncture Wounds." I lost track of Scott Urban but had more to write on this topic.
This book is inspired by actually experiences that I have had. I have spent time in the same room with evil wearing the appearance of being a normal person. I could not have known when I first wrote poems Puncture Wounds that a psychopath would rise to power in the US. There is a parallel between the evil person I once knew and that person who rises to power in the US.
As a clinical social worker, I didn't expect psychopaths or narcissists to come in for therapy and so I was not educated on such people, nor had I studied them until I met someone who met that profile or those characteristics. I then felt obligated to study such things for my own safety and to not miss the signs in the future. I also didn't want it to take a long time to see a psychopath for what they are.