Essential Tomb of Dracula #1

In "Who Stalks the Vampire?", Dracula, newly awakened and hunted, finds unexpected allies in Taj and Rachel, who prevent his self-destruction and draw him into their fight. With the cunning of his new slave Clifford Graves, Dracula sets out to reclaim his buried coffin, rich with gold and long forgotten. His path crosses with the enigmatic Ilsa Strangway, whose presence adds a new layer of mystery to his dark resurgence.

In "Through a Mirror Darkly!", Dracula transforms Ilsa into a vampire, only for her to be horrified when her youth doesn’t return—leading to a tragic clash with Rachel. As the tension fractures, Dracula and Taj are pulled into the depths of Ilsa’s black mirror, vanishing into its shadowed depths.

In "Death to a Vampire-Slayer!", Dracula and Taj harness the power of the black mirror to journey back to 19th Century Transylvania, where ancient shadows and forgotten horrors still linger. Drake and Rachel pursue them through the rift, but as the mirror flickers, Dracula vanishes once more—leaving their fate uncertain in a time and place where the rules of survival are written in blood.

In "The Moorlands Monster!" from Essential Tomb of Dracula #1, Dracula and Lenore return to 20th century England, where their hunt for Rachel takes a dangerous turn. As vampire hunters close in, a deformed son of a nobleman emerges with a secret that disrupts Dracula’s plans.

In "Death of a Monster!", a chilling flashback uncovers how Baron Russoff was transformed into a werewolf, setting off a cursed legacy. In the present, Dracula launches a deadly assault on Jack and Topaz, driven by a desperate need to reclaim a book tied to the Baron’s dark past.