I, The Vampire

In Hollywood's glittering shadows, assistant director Mart Prescott is pulled into a nightmare of fame, grief, and blood. At a party in Jack Hardy's hilltop home, he meets the mysterious foreign star Chevalier Pierre Futaine, a pale, cold-eyed sensation known as "the vampire," and senses at once that something is profoundly wrong. His friend Hess Deming is already collapsing under the death of his wife Sandra, who feared fire so desperately that her cremation becomes a final source of terror. Then the clues turn unmistakable: strange puncture marks on throats, Sandra's impossible message, a film image of a glowing figure near Jean Hubbard, and a projectionist found dead. As Mart follows the trail through Hollywood nightlife and into Futaine's isolated house, he learns the truth from Jack Hardy: Futaine is a real vampire, protected by a sealed underground vault and sustained by hypnotic power, secrecy, and predation. Trapped before that vault, Mart watches Futaine claim Jean as the reincarnation of his lost love Sonya, only to witness the monster's unexpected mercy. At dawn, Futaine leaves Jean alive, and Mart is left with a silver key, a desperate resolve, and the burden of facing the vampire's legacy before it consumes them all. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.