Terrence Hooker

From Absit Omen Lexicon

Terrence Hooker is the leader of a vampire coven in the city of London. His coven is called the Camden Town Hookers and they reside close to their title area. There are approximately fifteen members.


The Camden Town Hookers is a pub in muggle London - it is located at the end of a residential road, and warded against muggles. Many of the pub's employees are members of Hook's coven, although they also hire two or three wizards/witches/squibs who look after the premises when the vampires are asleep in day time. Typically, one of the vampires will stay awake and indoors throughout the day as well. This is done in shifts.


Feeding on humans is illegal but it is rumoured that the coven members will draw blood from these people, or from other willing volunteers who cross their threshold.


Much of the licit business takes place on the ground floor of the pub. Here, there is a regular bar with an array of magical drinks and snacks. Furnishings and fixtures are made of old, stained redwood. There is a sense of old London here: billiards, peeling portraits, barrels of suspicious liquids. The only exception is a wide floor-to-ceiling mirror behind the bar; in its reflection, you can tell apart vampiric visitors from regular ones.


The two floors above the pub are occupied by the coven's personal apartments. On the first floor, a set of bedrooms each shared by two vampires - only the older ones get their own - as well as a comfortable common room. The top floor is where Terrence's office and bedroom are located, in addition to an empty space that has gone into disuse. His coven's riches are stored in the basement: accessible only to a few.