In response to reader requests for an authentic golden age pulp novel, Jeff Deischer offers Red, as in ruin. It is 1942. America has just entered World War II. But other menaces threaten the citizens of the United States. Six years ago, tragedy took Simon Basil Petrie's family from him. From the ashes of his life as an adventurer came the Basilisk, a being seemingly devoid of emotion devoted to one thing - battling crime and the weird criminals who perpetrate it. The Basilisk and his associates in Nemesis Company are summoned to Mexico when an old friend is attacked by a vampire, his body drained of blood