The stunning New York Times bestselling vampire sagau2014the basis for the FX seriesu2014that author Dan Simmons (Drood, The Terror) calls, u201can unholy spawn of I Am Legend out of u2018Salemu2019s Lot,u201d concludes with The Night Eternal.nnThe magnificent, if monstrously warped brainchild of cinematic horror master Guillermo del Toro (Panu2019s Labyrinth, Hellboy) and Chuck Hoganu2014whose novel Prince of Thieves, was praised as, u201cone of the 10 best books of the yearu201d by Stephen Kingu2014The Night Eternal begins where The Strain and The Fall left off: with the last remnants of humankind enslaved by the vampire masters in a world forever shrouded by nuclear winter. Still, a small band of the living fights on in the shadows, in the final book of the ingenious dark fantasy trilogy that Newsweek says is, u201cgood enough to make us break that vow to swear off vampire stories.u201d