The mayor is missing, the mafia is involved, a mad scientist rules the basement and all the prostitutes are vampires.
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Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Oct. 2026
Ghosts have gone more mainstream than vampires, no longer grouped with the other weird freaks— the zombies and the werewolves, that paranormal genre once ascribed only to lovers of the macabre.
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