Nightmare #17

In a haunted English university, Dean Grieves unveils a chilling plan to hunt down vampires—only to reveal a far more personal motive. When the detained María Sancho recounts her traumatic past as a woman raised among a true vampire clan, the investigation uncovers disturbing evidence of real attacks and exhumations. But as the truth unfolds, Grieves confesses his own secret: he’s not hunting vampires, but seeking to eliminate the human ones—so his own kind can thrive.

Ralph Hising, a reporter for Atlanta's Gazette-Journal, finds himself drawn into a nightmare when a photographer brings in images of the city's bloodiest murder—one bearing the telltale marks of a vampire. Desperate to prove himself and hungry for the story of a lifetime, Ralph arms himself with silver bullets and begins hunting through Atlanta's alleys, but as the murders multiply and his obsession deepens, he starts to question what kind of man the hunt is turning him into. When he finally corners his prey, Ralph must confront a far more unsettling truth about himself than any creature of the night.