Join us at SCHS for a fun and spooky evening with author Dean Conrad as he dives into vampire history and discusses his After Dark trilogy and the inspiration behind the series. Books available for purchase in the SCHS gift shop.

free with purchase of After Dark book and free for SCHS members, $5 for nonmembers

About the author:

Dean Alan Conrad is a former newspaper reporter and columnist at the Pottsville Republican newspaper, as it was named then, from 1976 to 1984. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University with a BA in English. He has always liked everything creepy. In fact, he convinced his parents to let him turn their basement one summer into a mad scientist's laboratory and charge, friends, neighbors, and relatives admission.

More recently, he has written a trilogy of vampire novels, After Dark, Before Dawn, and The Reluctant Vampire. The series follows the exploits of Bo Bentwood, a college student who travels from his East Coast college campus near a large city to the West Coast and back to his small midwestern hometown. Along the way he is kidnapped by a vampiress and chased by vampire hunters. The hunters are both a sophisticated secret society dedicated to the eradication of the undead and a ragtag group of homeless people who escaped the vampires and decided to destroy them.