 Christopher Golden's 2000 novel "" depicts Spike killing a Slayer named Sophie in the 1940s, contradicting the two Slayers whom Spike is later established to have killed; the second Slayer Spike killed was established as New Yorker Nikki Wood.The short story "Voodoo Lounge" from the collection "Tales of the Slayer" is a sequel to this novel.Golden's 2006 novel, "Blackout", is truer to the series' chronology by depicting Spike's fatal encounter with Slayer Nikki Wood in 1977.