A Dark Inheritance

This story follows the near death of Victor. He's had suicidal tendencies for some time, and late one night finally decides to go through with it. He gets so close to killing himself, but a positive distraction changes his mind, and he is 'turned' into one of the undead for the next thousand years.
He soon discovers that the endless negativity he'd lived through had been someone else's controlling, and that he has been turned for a reason going back nearly two hundred years. Victor has been chosen as he's the only one who knows where the missing piece is, and without that there would be horrible consequences to human life.