Benny Lacoco, “the Food Fence”, has a lot of time to think while preparing a ten-course meal for a few old friends. Over dinner, he expects to learn if he’ll be either permanently out of touch or on the outs with some of them. Rumors indicate that someone in their circle may have opted to turn state’s evidence and enter witness protection. Lacoco uses the time in the kitchen to reflect on his own life up to this point and the tentativeness of his own future.

Included with each course (recipe included) is a flashback of his life’s turning points - from heisting Omaha Steaks, to scamming olive oil, to a quite different way of performing a hit.

And always in the back of his mind is the question - will this evening provide him with the just desserts of a life of crime?

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The Journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsing
by Allen C. Kupfer

Professor Abraham Van Helsing was the fictional creation of Bram Stoker for his dark work of fantasy Dracula.... or was he? Fragments of a recently discovered journal suggest otherwise. For the first time, in his own words, the legendary vampire hunter tells his own story. His early years and studies in blood research and mysticism lead to his quick rise in prominence in academia. His medical work and research in Rumania and the Mideast. The memoir takes a dark turn, when Van Helsing recounts the tragedy of his beloved wife's descent into madness and the death of his only child. Most importantly, Van Helsing's journal records the discovery of perhaps the greatest threat to man's dominion on earth, vampires. Filled with data to inform, and tips to educate, The Journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsing is more than a study of vampirism. It is also the story of a man's obsession with eradicating the world of its greatest scourge, that dark evil that claimed his wife. Working with the textural fragments he inherited from his grandfather, Professor Allen Conrad Kupfer has managed to piece together the story behind Bram Stoker's Dracula.