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7	[[caption-width-right:212:"Long Before Dawn" Cover]]
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9	A 2009 vampire novel by James V. Viscosi.
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11	After demolishing a group of vampire hunters, Martel the vampire sets his sights on an attractive woman he sees pumping gas and follows her from Pennsylvania back to upstate New York, where he amuses himself by stalking her. He makes it pretty obvious that he plans to eventually turn her into a vampire, which doesn't sit well with his current vampiric paramour. But what can SHE do about it?
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14	!! Tropes present in this work
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16	%%* AndYourLittleDogToo
17	%%* AnyoneCanDie: And boy, do they ever.
18	%%* AchillesHeel
19	%%* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: Roxanne]] to Martel, toward the end
20	%%* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Inverted with Lauren. Played straight with Roxanne.
21	%%* BigBad: Martel, then, ultimately, [[spoiler: Lauren]]
22	* BittersweetEnding [[spoiler: Roxanne]] lives; [[spoiler: Barry]] dies. [[spoiler: Ken]] is reunited with [[spoiler: Lauren]] moments before [[spoiler: blowing her up with a suicide vest]].
23	%%* BloodLust
24	* CollapsingLair: Right at the beginning, the vampire hunters burn down a coffin factory where Martel has been hiding out. Later, [[spoiler: Ken blows up the factory where Lauren and her vampires have been living.]]
25	* DeathOfAChild: Lauren seems to like killing babies and children, and one of the first things [[spoiler: Christian]] does after getting turned into a vampire is [[spoiler: microwave Roxanne's puppy]].
26	%%* CrazyJealousGuy: Christian Keems
27	%%* EarnYourHappyEnding
28	%%* EvenEvilHasStandards: Well, Martel does, anyway.
29	%%* {{Flight}}
30	%%* HolyBurnsEvil
31	%%* HypnoticEyes
32	%%* IHateYouVampireDad
33	%%* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Done to Roxanne by Martel and Lauren on separate occasions.
34	%%* {{Immortality}}
35	%%* KickTheDog
36	%%* MindControlEyes
37	* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Christian]] gets shot in the face, has his bowels blown out with a shotgun, gets burned by the sun, and [[spoiler: has his genitals bitten off]], before finally exploding due to [[WeakenedByTheLight overexposure to sunlight]].
38	%%* ReligionIsMagic
39	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Because they sleep in cocoons made out of blood and [[spoiler: only react to holy symbols from their former religion]]. Otherwise they're pretty much standard regular vampires.
40	%%* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Krone]]
41	%%* TheDragon: Krone
42	%%* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Lauren]]
43	%%* TheVamp: Lauren. Literally and figuratively.
44	* UnderestimatingBadassery: Martel doesn't take [[spoiler: Lauren]] seriously as a threat until much too late.
45	%%* VampireHunter: In spades
46	* ViralTransformation: Martel generally arranges it so his victims don't come back as vampires; [[spoiler: Lauren wants to raise a vampire army]].
47	%%* WeakenedByTheLight

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