Tiffany is hoping for some peace of her own as she encounters the typical obstacles of growing up, plus a racially motivated breakup. L’Errant is really a 300-year-old Anishinaabe vampire from the region, now looking to find peace after decades of savaging Europe. He takes up residence in a basement apartment and strikes up an odd friendship with his landlord’s tempestuous teenage daughter, Tiffany.
Reading this graphic novel version left me wondering why yet another adaptation was required.Ī mysterious man named Pierre L’Errant arrives at the fictional Otter Lake reserve with an aversion to sunlight and a fondness for maple syrup. The Night Wanderer was commissioned as a play (titled A Contemporary Gothic Indian Vampire Story) by Toronto’s Young People’s Theatre in the 1990s, then adapted as a YA novel published by Annick Press in 2007. First Nations author Drew Hayden Taylor stakes a claim on this overcrowded milieu, adding a twist by moving the story to a reservation. In the 16 years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer first stalked the airwaves, the trope of the teenage girl falling for an ancient vampire has grown from clever inversion to cliché (see: Twilight, Vampire Diaries, et al.).
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