
This was the one movie to have a Brother in a heroic role. “I’ll never forget going into movies to see Night of the Living Dead with my cousins. Banks once recounted one of her early influences-and the impact it had on her: She won several literary awards, including the 2008 Essence Literary Awards Storyteller of the Year. In her career, she wrote more than 40 novels in various genres, including African-American literature, romance, women’s fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction.


In this series of contemporary fantasy and horror, a battle is brewing, and increasingly brutal supernatural murders are happening-and only Damali can stop the evil.Īuthor Leslie Esdaile Banks (1959-2011) wrote the Vampire Huntress Legend series under the pen name L.A. Damali is the Neteru, a vampire huntress whose mission is to vanquish evil from the world.

Most people believe these creatures are only myth or fantasy-but Damali and her Guardian team know otherwise. Damali Richards is a successful hip-hop artist by day, but come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demon-predators.
