The One Who Appears at Midnight

Mysticism and folklore intertwine in one amazing story about the ruler of Wallachia—Prince Vlad of the Drăculești dynasty, whose entire life was spent in an endless and ruthless struggle against external and internal enemies. His subjects lived in fear and tried not to cross his path unless absolutely necessary. Yet at night, the capital of Wallachia fell under the rule of another lord, even more merciless… Detective Malashkin, familiar with Dracula from books and movies, naturally did not believe in his existence, but the details of one highly unusual case left him in doubt. A corpse that had come back to life and escaped from the morgue, a hospital orderly who had died from blood loss, missing test tubes of blood from a clinical laboratory… Could a vampire really be operating in the city and its surroundings, rising from the earth at night and drinking the blood of the living to sate his eternal hunger?..