Set in medieval times, The Queen of Wolves, the third and last installment of Douglas Clegg's epic Vampyricon trilogy, finds vamps and mortals amassing for a shattering battle against the Mother of Darkness.

Aleric, the Priest of Blood, must raise an army of the undead to battle against the woman he once loved, who has now become possessed by shadow priests and their mistress from a realm called the Veil. To achieve this destiny, Aleric seeks out an ancient city by a fire-colored sea, which is the origin of his tribe of vampyres.

A gothic tale of war, love, betrayal, and destiny among vampires, “The title,” says Clegg, “also refers to the mother of all vampires, an exiled queen who exists only in shadow and who seeks dominion on earth.”

Clegg’s inspiration for The Vampyricon dates back to a trip he took to the pyramids of Teotihuacán in Mexico when he was ten years old. “ I remember clearly standing on the upper steps of the Pyramid of the Sun,”he says, “looking down at all the excavations then going on, thinking: beneath this world, there's another buried world.”

His travels to Europe further ignited his fascination for the paranormal and the realm of pure imagination.  In his teens, Clegg saw The Alhambra, the magnificent Moorish palace in Spain built in the early 1300’s.  In his twenties, while living in France, he spent several nights in one of the oldest forests in Brittany. “All of this,” he says, “and my lifelong love for ancient mythology and a kind of alternate medieval history, inspired The Vampyricon novels.”

Douglas Clegg is an award-winning author of suspense novels. The Vampyricon series begins with The Priest of Blood followed by The Lady of Serpents.  Read an excerpt of The Queen of Wolves here.