The Passage/YMMV


 * Complete Monster: Babcock, even before he was a vampire. He killed his own abusive mother and then, after becoming a vampire, forces others to share his dream of killing her over and over again.
 * Although it could be that he's so utterly insane he can't help himself.
 * Serial Numbers Filed Off: An interesting case. Easily overlooked due to both the timeing and target demographic. Justine Cronin capitalizes on the vampire craze, but had they been called anything else there might have been detractors calling the book a case of [Serial Numbers Filed Off serial numbers] to.
 * Case in point-  Oh, and both take feature in the California-Texas-Nebraska area.