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Vicious, violent, and unyielding, the lordly Lucis Diabolis romps through Dublin's drug-and-alcohol-infested inner city. Terrorizing the streets by night, the vampire decides to sample the blood of low-class junkies and drunkards. Usually, the wealthy monster (a major food exporter during The Great Irish Famine) craves finer fare, grown increasingly rare: the flesh and blood of nobles. After killing an entire horde of misfits off Middle Abbey Street, he pauses for demonic discourse and mocking the ghostly remnants of Dublin's suicidal and homicide victims. But something is wrong! Returning to the cemetery after his tainted meal, violently ill and hallucinating, Diabolis fears he will not last the day in his coffin. Through the power of his mind, he survives till night, rises, and walks through the graveyard of Mount Jerome, contemplating how to overcome his infection. Diabolis recalls the buried blue-bloods of days gone by and realizes he must seek sustenance from wealthy aristocrats as a cure. But how is the vampire to get such blood in this present day and age?