Cover art by Jim Thiesen.
He was once called DRACULA but in our day he is known by many
strange names...
In 1935, Conservation Corps worker Jake Rezner meets a beautiful
and mysterious young girl in the Grand Canyon. She leads him deep
into the rocks, to a bizarre sculptor named Edgar Tyrell. Soon Jake
finds himself lost in time, unable to return.
Almost 60 years later private detective Joe Keogh has been hired
to locate a missing girl – the great niece of Edgar Tyrell. But Tyrell
is nosferatu, and he would sculpt in the sands of reality
itself. So Keogh must call on Mr. Strangeways, An Old Friend of the
Family and Lord of the Vampires, to battle an undead menace from
beyond time!
* * *
The dust-covered figure suddenly turned his gaze on Camilla, and
rasped a comment. "So, you've caught another one."
She answered timidly. "Don't say that, Edgar. He's a friend of
mine."
"Oh, I don't doubt that. Most men would be delighted to be your
friend. But have you told him yet?"
Camilla looking from one man to the other, seemed to be afraid to
say anything more.
"Told me what?" Jake demanded.
Suddenly Edgar caught sight of the lunch box, which Camilla had
put down on a ledge of rock. With some muttering that sounded vaguely
llike a curse, he snatched up the little container at the same time
raising his other hand as if he were about to strike the girl.
Jake, starting to shout something angry, took a step forward. But
Camilla cowering back from the blow that never fell, yelled at Jake
to stop. It was a scream of such sudden heartfelt terror that he
unthinkingly obeyed.
Then he looked back at Edgar. "Told me what?" he reapeated,
harshly.
"Nothing of real importance." Wicked eyes gleamed at him out of
the old man's dusty face. "Just that, today, the silly business that
you have called your life is over."
