Chapter Two: 1866 and All ThatWhat was it like, you may wonder, to live in Spitalfields and to hunt humans and drink their blood? Well, let me tell you. But first I must explain a little about our situation, we vampire girls of Spitalfields. Although the human population of London may have referred to us as Dolly Biters, amongst ourselves and the other gangs of the East End we were known as the Brick Lane Irregulars. Irregular, you see, because we weren't normal, at least not as far as the humans were concerned. We were vampires – different, odd, irregular. We ruled Spitalfields, and Brick Lane was the shining jewel in our crown. The old East End was, of course, full of human street gangs, young men mainly, running riot, fighting with each other, picking pockets or snatching bags, doing ov
