"A vampire, a werewolf and a zombie walk into a bar. The bartender screams 'Get the hell out of here! Bad joke in motion!'." Matty said. "We could sit next to the horse, the priest, the rabbi and the two nuns if the gorilla didn't mind," Rose added. Both erupted into more laughter. "And then we could eat the priest, rabbi and the nuns-convince the gorilla to join us and all ride out of town on the horse; after we had dismembered the bartender, of course. Dibs on the brains, by the way." "Are you really compelled to eat brains?" Life runs slightly different in the Brownstone home of Jareth Archer. A creature disguised as a man with a pair of unique friends to help him in his daily (and nightly) affairs. From the role play fiction generated from 'Vampires-A Dark Alleyway' comes a new set of tales centering on the vampire Carcosian- Vermathrax-rex.

On a October evening-it happened. What would become known as 'The Great Disaster' took a large percentage of the world's population without a trace or clue, leaving a world of few 'remainers' to try and solve the mystery. In the forefront of this new world stands The United Earth Foundation (UEF) led by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), his Chief Assistant, his Grand Inquisitor, and a computer system tying the extent of humanity and all its knowledge and wisdom into a central place for access and processing. A world was pulled from the brink of chaos to the beginnings of what was fast being called 'Utopia'. A New Age-a rebirth of humanity as it would smash the final barriers that had held them back and move forward. But other people saw a darker, more sinister purpose to the new world order. Insights and information long forgotten or ignored was consulted and the similarities were too stark and revealing to be mere coincidence. Two men, a woman, and a super computer saving the world, or a collection of creatures described in the past that would rear their heads in the end of days and launch the final assault in the battle for mankind's very souls? This will be the question to be answered as the world finds itself floating within The Shadows of The Beasts.