Publisher's Blurb: Less than Kindred, more than Kind Vampires call each other Kindred. Living dead playing at being a big, happy family. But not everything gets invited to the reunion. Some creatures are too grisly, too monstrous, too goddamn strange to be part of the family. These are the vampires that vampires fear. Meet the Wicked Dead. An Antagonist Book for Vampire: The Requiem •Details on the Strix, strange nemeses from the nights of Rome •The horrifying consequences of Kindred sins, including larvae and the Dampyr •New lineages of vampire, from the horrifying Jiang Shi to the grotesque Cymothoa Sanguinaria