When heroin-addicted vampire and gang leader, RJ, reluctantly takes in a 12-year-old prostitute called Bait, humanity is introduced to his otherwise lifeless existence. An unforgiving, vicious, and realistic horror story, Knuckle Supper explores chemical dependency, inner-city brutality, religion, molestation, abortion, and the very nature of evil itself. 

In 2010, Knuckle Supper was called “The Anti-Twilight”. Now, re-edited and re-mixed as the new “Ultimate Gutter Fix Edition”, 2011's gold medal, IPPY award-winning “Best Horror Novel” paves the way to the much anticipated sequel, Knuckle Balled. Unlike anything you've ever heard, Knuckle Supper is a bone-smashing vampire story...built for the 21st century. 

"Combining the slick Hollywood decadence of a Bret Easton Ellis novel and the drug-addled realism of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, author Drew Stepek gleefully takes the piss out of the staid troupes of the genre by injecting LA's seedy underbelly with heroin-addicted vampires.” (Rue Morgue)

"Even though there are various types of exploitation involved in the lives/backgrounds of almost all the players in this blood fest, Stepek is masterful in enabling the reader to actually feel sorrow and empathy for a few of the characters (not only RJ and Bait) and to see the human in the monsters and the monster in the humans.” (Fangoria Magazine) 

“It’s a drug-fueled, modern-day vampire saga that reads like a bloodsucking sequel to 1979‘s The Warriors written by James Ellroy. And fans of hardcore horror fiction take blissful note: Stepek’s wicked prose can cut awfully deep." (Bloody Disgusting)