Author — Dark Fiction
E.L.
Frederick
Where the desert keeps its secrets buried, and the night has teeth.
Author — Dark Fiction
Where the desert keeps its secrets buried, and the night has teeth.
The Author
E.L. Frederick is an IT and cybersecurity professional who lives in Hereford, Arizona — a few miles from the border he writes about. He has worked as a contractor in Afghanistan and Iraq and has spent the better part of two decades in the desert Southwest. He has a particular interest in apocryphal texts, theological edge cases, and the question of what happens to faith when the answers stop coming.
Vampires of Tucson is his first fiction series. It is set in the region where he lives, about people who look like his neighbors, in a desert he knows by name.
He is not easy to surprise.
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Serial Novel — Dark Fantasy / Sonoran Gothic
These stories follow young women who were trafficked, abandoned, and left to die in the Sonoran dirt. Some of them didn't stay dead. Each book follows at least one of them. You don't need to read them in order.
Set in and around greater Tucson and south-east Arizona.
The Books
Fourteen books — three publishing now, eleven in development. Timelines, descriptions, and pre-release chapters for the full series.
Explore the Series →The People
The full cast: the Levantadas, the Elders, the Hunters, the Crimson Cabaret, and the ones who don’t belong to anyone. The people the story is built around.
Meet the Cast →The Territory
Pima and Cochise counties. Every haven, every boundary, every place something happened that was never reported. Built from the 500,000-word draft and updated as the series adds to it.
Open the Map →The Build Log
How the series actually gets written: the databases, schemas, quality gates, and standards that keep an AI in one voice. A build log, not a course — thirty entries and counting.
Read the Build Log →The Essays
Craft, AI and the people selling it, the theology underneath the vampires, and what the desert does with the people nobody is looking for. Twenty-seven pieces, collected and kept.
Read the Essays →Subscribe
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