The latest addition to my website isAlexei Ivanov‘s Пищеблок The Food Block). The novel is set in 1980 in a remote Soviet pioneer camp on the Volga. Our two heroes are Igor Korzukhin, a team leader, and Valerka, a young pioneer. The pioneers indulge in various activities but first Valerka Lagunov and then Igor discover that some of their number are vampires. Indeed they gradually realise there are more than expected and that the vampires are enable to enslave others. Some of the authorities seem to know but turn a blind eye while others may be involved. Igor and Valerka must struggle against them on their own. It is clear that Ivanov is using the idea of the vampires as a symbol of the Soviet communists as the vampires are, for the most part, good Communists, following the rules, not thinking for themseves unlike the free-thinking Igor and Valerka. Ivanov gives us an excellent novel, gradually building up the tension.