Quincy Harker

Name's Harker. Quincy Harker. My parents helped put Dracula in the ground back in the old country, and my mother carried the devil's blood out of that business, which means it runs in me too. My godfather taught me the rest of the trade — you may have heard of him, a Dutchman named Van Helsing. So no, this is not your grandmother's vampire story. It's Charlotte, North Carolina, after dark, and something worse than usual just crawled up out of the storm drains. The spine of this world is Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter, John G. Hartness's fast, first-person novellas and novels about a functionally immortal magician who runs down demons, rogue angels, and worse alongside a fallen angel named Glory and the ghost of his dead uncle. Around that spine, Falstaff Books has built out a whole Shadow Council shared universe: a secret order that polices the supernatural, written across many books by other hands — Gail Z. Martin, Larry N. Martin, James Palmer, Judy Black — whose own series (the Shadow Council Case Files and Archives, the Finnegan Family, Frost & Filigree, Joe Mack) cross paths with Harker's beat. It sprawls, and the pieces branch more than they line up, but they share one continuity and one rulebook for how magic bites back. Expect gallows humor, comic-book pacing, pop-culture snark, and a real body count — closer in blood to Constantine and the Dresden Files than to gothic dread, with genuine grief running under the one-liners. Start where Quincy starts: the opening novellas, collected as Year One, hand you the whole voice in a single sitting before the wider Council pulls you deeper.