The Myth of the Vampire

The legend of the vampire and the people who hunt it actually pre date dracula by centuries. The first to die from an illness was usually the cause of the outbreak that followed. Because of this belief, bodies all across the northeast were routinely exhumed and destroyed in one way or another. It's as if old superstitions were clawing their way out of the depths of the past to haunt the living.

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