The Arlington Revenant Out Now

Added at 13:53 on 27 May 2025

They say everyone has an erotic vampire horror comedy novel in them, and here’s mine. The Arlington Revenant largely takes place in Glasgow, though the main characters, and the revenant herself, are transported to Estonia for the conclusion.

The first person storyteller is a Church of Scotland minister. A little sweary, and not at all religious. He’s the DS Hutton of ministers. And since I was going for a Hutton-esque narrative, I took the executive decision to set the novel in the HLU (Hutton Literary Universe). (The HLU is an actual thing by the way, and will one day be studied by all the great universities.)

Nevertheless, DS Hutton himself, having retired and gone off to live a life on the road with Sergeant Harrison, is not involved. We do, however, have Hutton regulars DCI Eurydice Hamilton and DC Ritter. And, since the narrative ends up in Estonia, the return of DI Kallas.

(Avid readers may also have noted a brief appearance by DCI Hamilton in Buchan 4.)

So, befitting the HLU, there’s a preposterous storyline, lots of swearing, lots of sex, lots of grotesque death. The book for all your erotic horror needs. 

Here’s the blurb. Click on the image to share in the magic:

BLACK HUMOUR. BLOODY MURDER. AND VAMPIRES.

The erotic, darkly comic, vampire horror novel of the year.

Glasgow. Late October. There have been three murders in quick succession and the police are stumped. Not because they don’t have a suspect. They have DNA, they have a name, they have certainty. Unfortunately, the suspect, Babette Clausen, died several weeks before the first victim.

The police have investigated every possible theory, and come to the only logical conclusion. Babette is a vampire. Sadly for the Reverend Lucas Hopper, brought on board as a religious consultant, they’re not wrong, and his life is about to explode into blood-spattered horror.

From the heart of Scotland, to an ancient castle on the shores of the Baltic, The Arlington Revenant is a rip-roaring adventure in sex and death, myth and morality, and the haunting, dark shadow of the vampire…