Seduced and killed by a beautiful woman, Richard Venneman wakes as a vampire.


Because he loathes what he's become, because his irresistible need for human blood horrifies him, he seeks the only salvation he can imagine: incinerating himself in the experimental fusion reactor where he worked when he was alive.


But the terrible vitality of vampire flesh betrays him.


Once again, he wakes changed-into an even more powerful and awful being, a monster who can feed only on the blood of vampires, a nightmare who dreams of his own destruction in a terrible ocean of blood.