故事发生在1890年前后，神秘的德古拉将自己装扮成美国企业家Allen Grayson来到伦敦，声称要把现代科技带到维多利亚时代的英国社会。他对当时属于前沿科学的电力科学特别感兴趣——这种科学能够照亮黑暗的夜空，对无法见到阳光的他来说真是太有用了。他此行还有另一个目的：向数个世纪之前将他变成不死之身并彻底毁掉他生活的人复仇。

I HAD just arrived at Cruden Bay on my annual visit, and after a late breakfast was sitting on the low wall which was a continuation of the escarpment of the bridge over the Water of Cruden. Opposite

He crossed himself, as he answered laconically: 'Walpurgis nacht.' Then he took out his watch, a great, old-fashioned German silver thing as big as a turnip, and looked at it, with his eyebrows gathe

On the forenoon of a day in February, 1899, the White Star S. S. Cryptic forced her way from Pier No. 48 out into the Hudson River through a mass of floating ice, which made a moving carpet over the