vampire of the night
... Was it because the night was so quiet? ... But by night the church was menacing, the doorway to an alien world. ... Looking out of the window in the middle of the night did not stop the fear that crawled up her spine. ... Nothing should be moving in the cemetery, not at this time of the night. ... The window, and the lock that fastened it, had been fixed, and her brothers warned her to keep it shut at night. ... But one night, this time in winter, she again felt that same prickling fear.