Blood

Shabby academic Fred Plunkett, working alone in his aunt's Victorian house, has his peace disturbed by a sleek intruder with matt red lipstick, a lampblack dress and high, plastic heels. Lara claims to be researching vampires and the theory that Dracula fled his native Transylvania to take refuge in the Cooley Mountains of Ireland, in Fred's home town. But when she smiles, submerged thoughts of blood and desire begin to wake in Fred's mind...