Among the old warehouses on the Thames, Lord Marsden's gothic palace is hidden from the sight of those who cannot read through illusions. When Jack Tarrant, a self-styled vampirologist from London, finds him while investigating the properties of the South Seas Company, Harlan Draka decides to pay a courtesy visit to his arch-enemy. But the appointment will be postponed to another time and another place, in a past that emerges through the meeting of Bram Stoker, the author of "Dracula", with the legendary traveler Arminius Vambèry. A past that leads from the steppes of the lord of death Erlik Khan to the wolf-infested forests of Transylvania...
Drummond School, in Dorset, is an institution of noble and ancient tradition. When the trap of the Master of the Night Lord Marsden tightens around some of the school's little guests, unheard of and surprising things happen. Only the alliance of Dampyr and his friends with some of the most brilliant minds in London will be able to save the boys: and it will be up to a handful of daring people to cross the frontiers of time and space...
Gas lights, carriages, sailing ships in the docks on the Thames and the sinister slums of Whitechapel... Who is the bloodthirsty murderer who threatens London? According to Bram Stoker and Professor Vambéry it is the Master of the Night Draka. And according to Harlan? While searching for traces of the missing boys, Dampyr begins to have doubts about the identity of his true enemy. Anyone who remains in a parallel world for a long time risks losing the memory of what was... Having interrupted his psychic contacts with his friends who remained in our world, Harlan sees every certainty and every memory progressively fade away, except, perhaps, the name of his main enemy...
Dispersed in a parallel world reminiscent of 1890s London, Harlan and his companions have erased every memory of who they are and where they come from. But one certainty remains for them: they know they are vampire hunters and that they are there to eliminate a dangerous Master of the Night. Together with their new friends Bram Stoker and Arminius Vambéry, Harlan and Tesla (with their new identities of Van Helsing and Mina Harker) enter the fortified palace of Carfax to kill the vampire Draka! This is not Harlan's real father, but an alter ego completely similar to him. Lord Marsden knows, however, that his killing by Harlan would mean greatly weakening the Draka of our world... If Dampyr, the real one, were to die, Marsden's triumph would be even more complete... And in the meantime, Kurjak, Hulagu and Murphy are captured by Marsden himself and his cruel godson Morningstar...
