"Gee, whiz, Miss Plumtartt, these here are sure enough an odd assortment of characters you and I have run up with." "Indeed, Mr. Temperance, and at the risk of disclosing any 'spoilers' for our dear readers, I suspect that we have allowed ourselves to fall into the clutches of a Nosferatu brood." "Nosfer-who-who?" "Nosferatu, Mr. Temperance, undead fiends that gain sustenance by slaking their unnatural thirsts on the manna of the living." "Oh my Goodness You mean we are prisoners of a bunch of bloodsucking Vampyres? That's terrible " "Quite, but what is even more troubling, is my suspicion that they are brewing a conspiracy that could threaten life at every level all over planet Earth " "Golly "