Between the old warehouses on the River Thames, the Gothic palace of Lord Marsden is hidden to anyone who cant see through illusions. When a self-proclaimed vampirologist from London, Jack Tarrant, finds the mansion while investigating about South Seas Companys property, Harlan Draka decides to pay a courtesy call to his arch-nemesis. Their appointment is to be postponed to another time and place, in a past resurfaced through the encounter between Bram Stoker, the writer of Dracula, and the legendary traveller, Arminius Vambèry. A past that will lead Harlan from the steppes of the Lord of Death, Erlik Khan, to the wolf-infested woods of Transylvania...