Private eye Hannibal King receives a client,
Adrianne Walters, who was married that morning and her
husband Fred was killed just hours later by a mystery man who knocked at the
door (we see it was Dracula); the killer fled when other tenants arrived,
leaving Adrianne unharmed. King deduces it was a vampire, having encountered
one on another case a few years earlier (the flashback shows us Deacon Frost);
he also mentions a recent case where all of the passengers on a jet were found
dead, their blood drained (we see Lilith this time). King takes the case and
starts by asking questions at a local pub about Fred Walters. The bartender
takes him in the back and attacks him as he is under Dracula’s control. King
escapes and heads to the docks where Fred worked as an accountant for a
shipping company; there he encounters Dracula, arranging for coffins of earth
to be sent to various places overseas. Dracula throws King out of the window
but he returns after the vampire lord leaves and forces the manager to tell him
where the coffins are going. King is directed to a warehouse where Dracula is
waiting for him with a few of his vampire henchmen. There is a battle which
ends when the sound of sirens leads Dracula to flee. King returns and tells the
client that her husband was killed because he learned too much about Dracula’s
scheme to send his coffins around the world. Then comes the big reveal:
Hannibal King is a vampire.