SOMETHING IN THE WORLD IS STILL BURNING

For 138 years, the Vance family has held the office of Sheriff in Cascade County, Oregon, for one closely guarded reason: to protect a single resident. Adam Blackwood is a quiet, reclusive blacksmith living in the deep woods of the eastern ridge. He is also over two hundred years old, powered by an engineered bioelectric matrix, and was first animated in a stone-floored Bavarian laboratory in 1797.
He is Frankenstein's monster, living in a self-imposed exile, and the Vance family's sworn generational "Accord" is to keep the prying eyes of the modern world from ever finding him. But the modern world is no longer Adam's greatest threat. When locals begin turning up dead on the snowy margins of town-their bodies completely desiccated, headless, and drained of all bioelectrical charge-twenty-eight-year-old Deputy Chloe Vance is thrust into a nightmare her academy training never prepared her for.
A five-hundred-year-old cosmic predator has arrived in Colter's Run. Known to history as Vlad the Impaler, the entity has evolved into a parasitic void that feeds on the human nervous system. Starving in the modern age, it has come to Oregon for the ultimate meal: Adam's immortal, high-voltage matrix. And it will slaughter anyone in the county to draw him out. As the gruesome murders attract a ruthless federal investigator determined to quarantine the town and expose the "pathogen, " Chloe is forced to rapidly inherit her father's dark legacy.
She must navigate a deadly, ticking-clock chess match between a brilliant federal agent, an ancient vampire, and the breaking point of the law. To save her town, Chloe must help Adam lure the creature to an abandoned iron works facility for a devastating showdown, using Adam's own body to ground the monster with fifteen thousand volts of industrial electricity. Fusing the gritty, procedural tension of True Detective with the mythic Americana of American Gods, Something in the World is Still Burning is a haunting, cross-genre thriller.
It re-imagines literature's two greatest monsters locked in a fatal struggle, proving that the most terrifying things in the dark are sometimes the only things keeping us safe.