The Wrethfetin’s Blood

"The Wrethfetin's Blood" is a story appearing in The Casebook of Alanik Ray and that recounts the liberation from thralldom of the halflings of a small village in western Darkon. The enslavement of the village by a wrethfetin (halfling vampire), was guessed by Alanik Ray when he noticed a pair of oddities as he and Dr. Arthur Sedgewick dined at the local tavern: there was not a single smoker among the halflings; and all the halflings looked far younger than their true ages. Ray and Sedgewick were able to corner and destroy the responsible party, a Dr. Stubbins, learning from him of the female who was his maker, mentor, and master. She, however, eluded the detective and presumably survives to this day.

Authorship

Dr. Stubbins was created by cure as part of a contribution to John W. Mangrum's Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror project (posted on the Fraternity of Shadows message board).