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A wildly entertaining debut from Michelle McGill-Vargas, American Ghoul deftly combines horror and social commentary - with a dash of a buddy comedy - in an innovative twist on the vampire genre.You can't kill someone who's already dead.That's what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer after - allegedly - killing her mistress, Simone Arceneau. But how could Simone be dead when she was taking callers just a few minutes before? And why was her house always so dark?Lavinia, a recently freed slave, met Simone, a recently undead vampire, by chance on a plantation in post-Civil War Georgia. With nothing remaining for either woman in the South, the two form a fast friendship and head north. However, Lavinia quickly learns that teaming up with this white woman may be more than she bargained for.