 Based on the short story "A Tale of the Aged and Distinguished Nimby  the Vampire", written by Grace Junkie in 1994. He has stated the  story was written in five hours during a bout of insomnia, and the  text remains essentially unchanged. "Another Tale of the..." was  completed in 1997, three years later. A third "Nimby" story is still  incomplete, nine years after it was started.