Those Terrifying, Terrible, Transylvanian Troglodytes

Those brothers — Theo, Tobias, and Titus — were the strangest bunch of humanoids in the Mississippi Delta. It was rumored that they migrated from Transylvania and perhaps were the progeny of Count Dracula himself. Antisocial, they lived, fought, drank, and worked together sunup to sundown, exerting Goliath-size bodies overflowing with strength and energy unmatched by any ordinary man or set of men. Of fear and women, they had no use, which didn’t matter because women steered clear of them, as did most men. They were the source of children’s nightmares. Their abode, a barn-sized house, was surrounded by rows of wrecked automobiles, engines, transmissions, and tires crisscrossing a huge junkyard, so far out in the boondocks that a step in any direction was closer to civilization.