In the fourteenth floor of a pre-war Manhattan building lives Eli Goldsmith, a reclusive intellectual who has declared war on the 21st century. His apartment is a time capsule of flickering candles and vintage jazz, where the only visitors are the ghosts of literature and classic cinema. To his neighbors, he's an eccentric. A hermit. A madman. But to Dolores Steinberg, the building's self-appointed detective, Eli is something far more sinister: a vampire stalking victims from his gothic aerie above Broadway.For three years, Dolores has documented Eli's strange habits-his aversion to sunlight, his nocturnal schedule, his mysterious midnight activities. Armed with binoculars and an imagination fed by too many crime novels, she's convinced her neighbor is a serial killer. And she won't rest until she proves it.When social services sends Carmen Rodriguez to investigate Dolores's claims, what should be a routine wellness check becomes a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Carmen finds herself caught between Eli's seductive mythology and Dolores's obsessive crusade, forced to unravel the truth about a man who may be New York's last vampire-or simply its loneliest soul.A addictive psychological thriller with touches of magical realism, The Vampire of the Beresford is a haunting meditation on love, loss, and the fantasies we construct to survive our deepest wounds. Perfect for readers who loved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Klara and the Sun-a story about the monsters we become when we refuse to let go of the past. The Vampire of the Beresford is a darkly comic gothic novel that follows three unforgettable characters locked in a dangerous psychological triangle on Manhattan's Upper West Side.Eli Goldsmith is a former Columbia literature professor who has spent decades transforming his pre-war apartment into a shrine to a lost world. Living by candlelight, sleeping through the day, and entertaining only the memories of his deceased wife, Eli has become convinced he's achieved a kind of immortality-the perfect, unchanging existence of the undead.Dolores Steinberg, his downstairs neighbor, has been watching Eli's every move for three years through binoculars and paranoid determination. A retired civil servant with too much time and too little purpose, Dolores has convinced herself that Eli is a serial killer-and she has the "evidence" to prove it.When Carmen Rodriguez, a pragmatic social worker, is dispatched to investigate Dolores's complaints, she expects to find just another case of elder isolation and neighborly paranoia. Instead, she discovers a mystery that challenges everything she thought she knew about sanity, love, and the fine line between protective fantasy and dangerous delusion.As Carmen digs deeper into Eli's carefully constructed world, she must navigate between Dolores's increasingly frantic accusations and Eli's seductive philosophy of beautiful withdrawal from modern life. But when the boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to blur, Carmen realizes that the real monster might not be who-or what-she expected.Set against the backdrop of a changing New York City that threatens to leave its dreamers behind, The Vampire of the Beresford is both a nail-biting psychological thriller and a profound exploration of grief, obsession, and the stories we tell ourselves to make meaning from loss. In the heart of Manhattan's Upper West Side, in the fourteenth-floor aerie of a pre-war building that remembered when Broadway was still young, lived Eli Goldsmith. A man of faded elegance and vast culture who had declared personal war on the twenty-first century. His apartment was a time capsule, a refuge lit by candlelight where the only music came from a vintage turntable and the only visitors were ghosts of literature and classic cinema. To his neighbors, he was an eccentric. A madman.