Everyone in the village of Badstein knows how to eliminatethe vampire preying on its young daughters: Find the coffinhe sleeps in during the day and drive a wooden stake throughhis heart.But how can you find you quarry if you don't know who he isand your suspects are many.There's a dark-complexioned Latour, given to wandering atnight and sleeping during the day. . . and handsome BaronMeinster, supposedly traveling in the Orient but rumored to behiding in his ancient chateau. . . and the stranger, ProfessorVan Helsing . . . it could be anyone.Meanwhile, the victims multiply - all female, all young,and all marked with the telltale sign of the vampire. This is the first volume of "The NightMare Series" fromnoted film historian and author, Philip J Riley. The purposeof the series is to preserve the 50s and 60s Horror Film,movie tie-in novels that are printed on old crumblingpulp paper; to bring them in this new format for a newcentury. These are the original novels by various authors,not the scripts as in the editor's "Filmonster Series" and theMagicImage Filmbook series.