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Vampiros do Rio Douro series
Série Vampiros do Rio Douro ({[English]]: “Golden River Vampires Series”) is a series of novels about the rise and fall of the Golden River Vampires written by André Vianco. The stories are focused on this group of seven vampires: “Inverno”, “Acordador”, “Tempestade”, “Lobo”, “Espelho”, “Gentil” and “Sétimo”, the books also focus on their sons. The story takes place in two distinct times and countries, the past or the beginning of the story happens in a medieval Portugal during the century XIV, whereas the present is located in Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo and other places in a nowadays Brazil. The past centres on how the seven humans became vampires, their goals before and after the transformation and how they end up in the big box of silver in which they are found in the present. The present days focus on how the vampires are found and wake up, the differences between what they knew and their new reality is, how this influence what they want to do and how they affect the people surrounding them.

Idea for the series of novels
During his childhood, André Vianco was already a fan of watching horror movies during the nighttime, some of the movies he use to watch are A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Blob, Bram Stoker's Dracula and others. All of this helped to build his knowledge of how to tell horror stories, he also used tell horror stories during the holidays spent with his family in the countryside .. The idea for the books came during the time in which he was working in a credit card company receiving phone calls during the night, he was used to work from until the dawn, what the author called the “vampire routine”, was the perfect environment to create his stories. Self-Publishing of the first novel [edit] In an interview with O Globo, Vianco said: "I had a dream of living from my stories. I wrote a book about vampires because has a commercial demand and I had always liked the subject. But nobody wanted to publish it. So I published by myself. I put all the money I had into it - Vianco adds. - I was a person used to live during the night.”. That was in 2000 when using all the money he had after being fired from his job he managed to get one thousand copies of his first book Os Sete (English: “The Seven”), he started to travel around Brazil visiting publishers and libraries trying to sell his books. In 2001 the publisher Novo Século Editora, became interested by his work and republished his first book and all the sequels of this series.

Style
André Vianco is known as the “Brazilian Vampire”. and also known as the biggest horror writer of Brazil, since his inspirations are horror movies from the nineties, his stories are filled with suspense, cliffhangers and influences of the movies he used to watch during his childhood. The genres of his stories are Horror, supernatural fiction, apocalyptic fiction, urban fantasy, ghost story, thriller, vampire fiction, science fiction, children's literature.

Name of the series of novels
This series is a compendium of three different sagas: Os Sete (English: “The Seven”), O turno da Noite (English: “The night shift”) and Vampiros do Rio Douro (English: “Golden River Vampires”). Then being named after the characters that influenced and have being present during the whole series of novels.

Os Sete (1999)
Divers encounter a wrecked Caravel on the coast of Rio Grande do Sul, where they retrieve various objects, including a large silver box. When the box is opened, seven vampires from Rio D'Ouro (Portugal) wake up and spread terror in Brazil. André Vianco presents the vampires “Inverno”, “Acordador”, “Tempestade”, “Lobo”, “Espelho”, “Gentil” and “Sétimo” who have supernatural powers that go beyond eternal life, strength and superhuman speed seen in most films and books of this genre.

Sétimo (2002)
A vampire awake after five hundred years opens his eyes to a strange, new, blood-filled land. Seventh decides to make Brazil his new home, in order to do that he will build an army of vampires to create his kingdom, display his power and fight vampire hunters. He elects a newly created vampire to serve as his guide, general and ward. In its thirst for blood and conquests, to self-proclaim him the most powerful creature on Earth, Seventh draws attention of vampires and in addition to that attract countless enemies from this and other worlds. These enemies will expend superhuman effort and employing weapons loaded with silver bullets, pointed teeth and paranormal powers. The most bizarre spectacle of the Earth can not be stopped.

O Turno da Noite, Vol. 1: Os Filhos de Sétimo (2006)
The Night Shift came to shake the underworld. Four newly brought vampires are attracted by an elder vampire who lives in São Paulo. Ignacio offers protection and teachings to the novices in exchange for their abilities to fight against organized crime. An explosive mix that will shake the city and plunge the reader into suspense, action and mystery. Vampires, werewolves and angels mingle in a conflict where we do not know for sure who is a hero and who is a bad guy. Buy your ticket, take your place, "The Night Shift" will set sail for an unforgettable trip.

O Turno da Noite, Vol. 2: Revelações (2006)
The Night Shift came to shake the underworld. Four newly brought vampires are attracted by an elder vampire who lives in São Paulo. Ignacio offers protection and teachings to the novices in exchange for their abilities to fight against organized crime. An explosive mix that will shake the city and plunge the reader into suspense, action and mystery. Vampires, werewolves and angels mingle in a conflict where we do not know for sure who is a hero and who is a bad guy. Buy your ticket, take your place, "The Night Shift" will set sail for an unforgettable trip.

O Turno da Noite, Vol. 3: O Livro de Jó (2007)
Following up the two previous volumes in which four newly brought vampires are attracted by an elder vampire who lives in São Paulo. Ignacio offers protection and teachings to the novices in exchange for their abilities to fight against organized crime. An explosive mix that will shake the city and plunge the reader into suspense, action and mystery. Vampires, werewolves and angels mingle in a conflict where we do not know for sure who is a hero and who is a bad guy.

"Raul, captured by that magical moment of pride and joy by having put an end to a so-called guardian of Job, hypnotised by that dark and inescapable ritual of any living being that was the denouement of the living world into darkness, squatted nearby of the reptile, amphibian, guardian of the ray that breaks it, and, inebriated, absorbed that sensation. Death should be there, right beside the creature, descending its skeletal fingers, just like humans, just like guardians, just like tortoises, ladybugs and pelicans.She with a skull face, devoid of flesh, always seeming to laugh and mock the living, touch the dying animal and swallow her soul to spit it in Acheron ... "

Vampiros do Rio Douro, Vol. 1 (2007)
In Golden River Vampires the author and screenwriter André Vianco tells how the protagonists of "The Seven" and "Seventh" appeared in the middle of the XIV century, in a medieval Portugal, troubled and full of mysticism. Isolated villages, unusual characters, playhouses, plots and betrayals form the scene where Don Guilherme, the feudal lord of the village Golden Castle, the fishermen Miguel and Seventh, as well as many other characters sometimes fearful, other times strangely captivating.

Vampiros do Rio Douro, Vol. 2 (2007)
In the first volume, the inhabitants of the village Golden Castle are affected by a strange disease, which they deduce to be the black plague. Many end up dying and despair and sadness take over the whole city. Inexplicably people return from death, with strange behaviours, including the lord of the village, Dom Guilherme. Father Justino arrives to try to discover what evil is affecting the village, in an attempt to save its inhabitants.

Soon he realises that this is not simply a case of black plague that it is causing suffering to the people, but something much more terrible and sombre, something already revealed in his nightmares. In the second volume of the Golden River Vampires the situation of the village worsens. The first transformations occur and Father Justino begins to be sure that the evil that ravages the region is vampirism. The characters in André Vianco's novel "The Seven" begin to take shape and reveal their personalities, as captivating as they are controversial, characteristics that blend the human side and the wild side in episodes that have snatched a legion of readers.

O Turno da Noite: Escuridão Eterna (2012)
Four novice vampires are seduced by the elder Ignacio to join his agency of rent killers in exchange for teachings. A captain of the Brazilian army walks with the seductive vampire Calíope, facing his greatest fears as he tries to stop the vampire epidemic spreading across the country. Two brothers separated by light and darkness meet by improbable reasons. Images and characters from the pages of one of the greatest successes of the writer André Vianco gain shape and colour in the traces of the artist Santtos and materialise the adventures of "The Night Shift".