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Just read the story Andy Warhol’s Dracula a couple of days back. Fun as usual, with Kim Newman distilling the best of the seventies into a romp of an alternate world – where the decade’s pop-culture and real-world luminaries rub shoulders in a society where vampirism is a way of life ( or…er…death).

Towards the end, there is a passage where the Vampire killers of that decade are banded together, in order to dispatch of someone who does the undead equivalent of Organized crime, and this is the passage that describes the bunch:

The taxi driver stood over him. There were others, in a circle. The silent nun. The black man with wooden knives. The black man with the crossbow. The cop who’d sworn to break the Transylvania connection. An architect, on his own crusade to avenge a family bled dead by dhampires. The ageing beatnik from the psychedelic van, with his smelly tracking dog. A red-skinned turncoat devil boy with the tail and sawn-off horns. The exterminator with the skull on his chest and a flame-thrower in his hands.

The thing is, I recognise all of the characters but one, the architect. Could anyone help identify? I have a feeling it refers to Howard Roark, but still. Anyone know of fictional architects with a penchant for vendetta?

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