The Vampire's Hideout is a short story written by Allen B. Ury. It was first published in his 1996 collection of vampire short stories Bites: The Hunt & More Fright With a Bite.
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A kidnapped young boy attempts to explain the danger both he and his kidnapper are in by hiding out in an abandoned building's basement after discovering the empty coffin of the local legend Nosferatu, the rat-faced vampire.