Who is The Hooded Man?Rumors have spread across the Immortal community - from Miami and New York to Paris, Frankfurt and Rome. Talk of 'the man in the hood who carries the decanter' have been increasing. But are the rumors true?Immortals around the world have been losing their dark gift - becoming mortal once again, dying an eternal death, cursed and damned forever. The rumors continue to spread, worldwide, as a mythical figure is seen shortly before each "death" carrying a bulbous crystal decanter. Is it the end of the Immortals?A.L. Mengel continues the Tartarus saga with powerful passages and eloquent description. Mesmerizing and exquisite; traveling to Piazza San Pietro, to Paris in the Dark Ages, ancient Jerusalem and modern day Lyon and Cairo, The Blood Decanter does not hold back with dazzling prose, across oceans and throughout time, interwoven together in a genealogy of blood ancestry