There have never been vampires, only tortured human beings. This is the provocative premise of this chilling novel in which Anscombe creates the memoirs of Laszlo, Count Dracula -- aristocrat, doctor, & helpless killer of young women. Set in the 19th century, Laszlo's story begins at medical school in Paris with a deadly attraction to a mental patient that leads him away from aristocratic society into the city's dark underworld. Laszlo returns to Transylvania to accede his dead brother's title. There he cultivates his image as a saintly doctor & trusted nationalist agent by day -- while the savage stalks the night with increasing cunning & ferocity. Evil, madness & sexuality!