PRE-ORDER. PUBLISHING 30 APRIL 2026

Justine is a vampire. Keith just lives like one.

An ex-junkie and ex-rock star — he’s let go of his ambitions, his hands mangled by his dead ex’s own jealous ex. It’s true that Justine has been around for a few centuries and Keith barely three decades, but they’re good for each other. Justine is teaching Keith to take the long view; Keith is reminding her how it feels to be alive. Yet a cohort of criminals, desperate artists, dead-enders, hangers-on, and wanna-bes, undead and otherwise, threaten their curious union. Can love stay untainted in a world of monsters?

First published in 1996, Todd Grimson’s Stainless is a noir fantasia, a symphony of bloody horror, and a woozy, erotic tour of night-side L.A.

“If Raymond Chandler or Flannery O’Connor had written a vampire novel, it might read with the brutal and passionate clarity of Stainless. Layers of corruption are explored and peeled away from the core of a heart-crushing love story. The ultimate late night in L.A.” — Katherine Dunn

“With his writing teeth in the reader’s neck and his tongue in his own cheek, Grimson plunders the bloody fantasy world of vampirism.” — Lynne Tillman

“The greatest horror writer you’ve never read . . . In Stainless, Todd Grimson set out to write ‘the Ultimate, Final Vampire Novel’—and succeeded . . . Grimson exposes the beating hearts of his characters, even the undead ones. Like its vampire characters, Stainless is a novel that grows stronger with age. We are obsessed with the vampire today because it represents the ideal of our culture… Stainless is a novel waiting to be rediscovered by a generation obsessed with image, even if it costs us our souls.” —Damien Walter, The Guardian