The night air was heavy with an eerie stillness as I made my way across the sprawling campus of St. Augustine University. Towering oak trees cast long shadows that danced ominously in the glow of the moon. It was a setting straight out of the folklore I spent my days teaching - a scene ripe for tales of mystery and danger.

As a professor of vampire folklore, I found myself drawn to the darker corners of academia. My name is Beatrice Wilde, and my life's work had been dedicated to unraveling the myths and legends surrounding creatures of the night. Little did I know, I was about to come face to face with a reality far stranger than any tale spun by poets and writers.