Count Dracula has arrived
in Boston, Massachusetts, and a group of young people stop to stare at his
unusual appearance. This angers Dracula and, shouting curses, he throws a young
man through a bench then departs as a bat, muttering threats….
Elsewhere in the
city, hack writer Harold H. Harold is fighting writer’s block as he tries to
complete his latest effort for True Vampire Stories magazine. He heads
over to his publisher and banters with the attractive receptionist, Aurora Rabinowitz,
about his woes. His boss Mr. Greadely doesn’t like the work Harold
has been submitting lately so he improvises and claims to have an interview
with a real vampire lined up for next issue; Greadely loves the idea and Harold
is now desperate for a way to keep that promise….
A sinister figure
enters a darkened brownstone and is ushered through a secret passage into the
presence of Doctor Sun; this is Juno, a huge Asian with a scarred faced and a
silver spike for a left hand. He is part of Sun’s new scheme against Dracula….
At 2 AM, Janet and
Stu, Harvard students, are on a motorcycle ride through the city. Dracula
swoops down on them in bat form, causing them to crash and then he drinks the
blood of them both. Harold H. Harold comes upon the scene and thinks it’s a
traffic accident until Dracula collapses in his arms. Seeing the blood and
Dracula’s fangs, he realizes he has found an authentic vampire and hustles him
into his car and taking him home where he tells his landlady that this is his
father who has had too much to drink. Harold is anxious to tell someone what
has happened and the only person he knows is Aurora; he phones her and to his
surprise she agrees to come over. While he is waiting in a haze of confusion,
Dracula awakens and sneaks up behind him….
In Brazil, Brother Voodoo
has told Frank Drake that he is not yet finished. Voodoo tells Frank he
is braver than he thinks and when he comes to believe he is no failure his life
will improve. Frank agrees to take this to heart and Voodoo magically teleports
him to the Boston airport where he is surprised to find Rachel van Helsing and
Quincy Harker who are equally surprised to see him stepping out of a cloud of
smoke….