Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story is a 1995 novel by Christopher Moore, combining elements of the supernatural and a romance novel. Christopher Moore is an American writer of absurdist fiction. ... The supernatural (Latin: super- exceeding + nature) refers to forces and phenomena which are beyond ordinary scientific understanding. ... A romance novel is a novel from the genre currently known as romance. ...

"a wildly original story of romance, lust, bloodlust, and blood loss."

Bloodsucking Fiends is the story of Jody, a young single woman living in San Francisco who is attacked by and turned into a vampire. While trying to adjust to her new nocturnal lifestyle, she employs the aid of C. Thomas Flood (or "Tommy" for short), a wannabe writer working nights at a local supermarket. As Jody and Tommy begin their life together (and begin growing closer), they also discover that a recent string of mysterious murders may be linked to the vampire who turned Jody. To get to the bottom of this, they end up turning to the help of Tommy's friends at work, and a mysterious street person who is suspected to be the Emperor Norton. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy), often having unnatural powers, heightened bodily functions, and/or the ability to physically transform. ... Joshua A. Norton, Emperor Norton I Joshua Abraham Norton (ca. ...