Predating the Predators (short story)

Predating the Predators was the third and final story in the Bernice Summerfield anthology The Vampire Curse. It was written by Philip Purser-Hallard. Characters from this story would reappear in the Faction Paradox short stories A Hundred Words from a Civil War, De Umbris Idearum, and Unification Theory.

Summary of the publisher
An aged Professor Summerfield is forced to confront the equally bloody past of a fellow attendee at the predictably ill-fated First Interdisciplinary Conference on Vampirology.

Characters

 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Imogen Tantry
 * Luke Duke
 * Antonio Finlay
 * Lloyd Doihara
 * Gonzo
 * Stassy Leustassavil
 * Olena
 * Emanuel Valeriani
 * Shabbir
 * Tomek Yatson
 * Stephen Cicero
 * Krisztina-Judit Németh
 * Fujio McHorowitz
 * Mep'to

Continuity

 * Imogen notes that Bernice resembles the President. (AUDIO: The Final Amendment)
 * The planet Entruria is the homeworld of the Entrustine Horde. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...)
 * Bernice says that she has fought demons, (PROSE: The Infernal Nexus) zombies, (PROSE: White Darkness, AUDIO: Beyond the Sea) and witches; (PROSE: The Squire's Crystal) eaten pizza with God, (PROSE: The Also People) played cricket with Sherlock Holmes, (PROSE: Happy Endings) been to Hell, (COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!) witnessed the fall of the dinosaurs, (AUDIO: The Adolescence of Time) met Oscar Wilde, (AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel) and encountered vampires several times earlier. (PROSE: Blood Harvest, The Badblood Diaries, Possum Kingdom)
 * Vlad III of Wallachia isn't a vampire. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * Krisztina-Judit Németh was previously seen in PROSE: Of the City of the Saved....
 * Alukahite culture influenced Earth's early vampire myths. (TV: State of Decay; PROSE: The Book of the War)