Flapper the Vamp

flapper3Flapper the Vamp (1902 – ?) The daughter of a minister in a middle-class Pennsylvania neighborhood, the girl who would become Flapper had strict parents who stressed rigorous studies, good grades and, of course, faith in Jesus Christ. While her father buried his face deep in his Bible, her mother would deem the slightest transgression as an excuse to wield her husband’s belt. So when her grandmother sent word that she had fallen ill, the girl jumped at the chance to take care of the old woman in New York City for the summer.

The year was 1918, the same year that the sorcerer Aleister Crowley had begun a series of magickal workings called the Amalantrah in furnished rooms overlooking Central Park West. Crowley had learned from an associate that the girl’s grandmother was a vampire and a sorceress who was feeding off her. He freed the girl from the wiles of the grandmother but then used his magic to complete her transformation into a powerful vampire that would do his bidding. But when he tried to take Flapper back to England with him, she began to wither as soon as the ship reached international waters. Crowley almost lost his bloodsucking servant because he had no belief in the stories that vampires need to stay in contact with their home soil.

To save her, Crowley tossed Flapper overboard. She washed up on the shores of Brooklyn where she began a carousing nightlife as a rogue “dewdropper”—a masterless vampire. At the start of Piper Houdini: Apprentice of Coney Island, it has been over seven years since Flapper has answered to anyone. And then one night she receives a summons from her Master . . .

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