It is 1901 and the body of a young woman has been found in a village pond with a deadly reputation in rural England. She has bite marks in her throat and is later seen wandering at night.

Nearby, in a vault of a ruined abbey, two coffins have been opened and stakes driven through the hearts of two female corpses, one of which has seemingly just been buried! The professor who found the drowned woman is murdered in a room under constant surveillance, where the killer literally vanishes in a puff of smoke!

Rumors of vampirism abound, and the main suspect’s reflection cannot be seen in a mirror…Even Owen Burns is baffled…