Over the centuries Philippe, the oldest known vampire, has been making thousands of children. To keep his kind a secret from humanity, he and his children built human breeding nests in underground caves and caverns throughout the world to provide a safe supply of human blood, instead of feeding on the general population, which threatened discovery as their numbers grew. The initial supply of human livestock was taken centuries before and subsequent breeding has resulted in a race of subhuman beings without awareness of their humanity, referred to as "Scragglies." The Scraggly population is...