The Tale Of The Body Thief

October, 1992

The Tale of the Body ThiefMiami--the vampire's city. South Beach at sunset, in the luxurious warmth of the winterless winter, the breeze moving in from the placid sea across the dark margin of cream-colored sand to cool the happy mortal children. The sweet parade of fashionable young men displaying their cultivated muscles with touching vulgarity, or of young women proud of their streamlined modern limbs.Old stucco hostelries, once the crumbling shelters of the aged, are reborn in smart pastels,...