A Catholic religious sister is demonstrating that even one of fiction’s darkest creatures can become a powerful vehicle for proclaiming the Gospel.
According to an exclusive interview published by EWTN News, Daughter of St. Paul Sister Allison Gliot recently completed her In Aeternum vampire trilogy with the release of The Dawn We Seek on July 24. Through the series, the religious sister explores themes of sin, redemption, hope, and the limitless mercy of God within a work of urban fantasy.
As a member of the Daughters of St. Paul, Sister Allison’s vocation includes evangelizing through media, making fiction another avenue for sharing the Catholic faith with modern audiences.
Speaking with EWTN News, Sister Allison reflected on how writing the trilogy became a deeply spiritual experience that extended beyond herself as readers embraced the story.
“When I first started writing this series, it was a solitary endeavor — just me and Jesus,” she told EWTN News. “But now that actual readers have been engaging with these stories and sharing their thoughts, hopes, and spiritual struggles with me as a result, Jesus has really been encouraging me to carry the readers in my heart and prayers in a special way.”
She added that publishing the books required an act of surrender.
“This story isn’t just mine anymore,” she said. “I surrendered it to God and to the readers when I published it, and it’s beautiful and profoundly humbling for me to see the fruit it’s bearing in so many lives.”
According to EWTN News, Sister Allison explained that storytelling has become an important part of her own relationship with Christ.
“For me, storytelling is a spiritual experience because it’s something I do with Jesus,” she said. “He provides the initial inspiration and asks me to trust him enough to put the time and effort into writing it down.”
She also described how writing continually deepens her own faith.
“Writing stories that involve my faith helps me to explore and live that faith more deeply,” she told EWTN News, noting that many of her own spiritual struggles and moments of grace unexpectedly find their way into her stories.
Rather than glorifying darkness, Sister Allison said vampires serve as a dramatic reflection of humanity’s fallen condition.
“In the ‘In Aeternum’ trilogy, vampires are a mirror of our wounded humanity at its worst,” she explained to EWTN News. “They are an exploration of just how far we can fall when we truly make the choice to embrace sin and evil.”
Yet she emphasized that the stories ultimately point toward hope rather than despair.
“They also provide an opportunity to show the extremity of God’s mercy and the lengths he will go to save us — if we let him,” she said.
Sister Allison hopes readers who struggle with guilt or feel beyond redemption will discover encouragement through the fictional characters’ journeys.
“If there can be a possibility of repentance and redemption even for them, then I pray that even readers who feel like they’ve hit rock bottom can find a ray of divine hope through these books,” she told EWTN News.
The interview also highlighted the Church’s encouragement of creativity. Sister Allison said Catholicism does not suppress imagination but elevates it because human creativity reflects God’s own creative nature.
“The Catholic Church teaches that God created our imaginations and gave us gifts of creativity — gifts that he desires us to delight in and to use for building up his kingdom,” she said.
She added that “Catholicism, far from limiting our imagination, puts us in touch with God’s imagination and communicates his very life to us through the grace of the sacraments.”
Before concluding the interview, Sister Allison asked Catholics to remember writers and storytellers in their prayers.
According to EWTN News, she said many Catholic authors hope to bring the faith into popular fiction genres but often face significant challenges in doing so. She asked readers to pray “for Catholic authors and storytellers, that the Holy Spirit can bring much good out of the work we strive to do in his name.”
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