Some people just deserve bloodsuckery fates.
Imagine you're in a village, in the remote Romanian countryside where everyone speaks perfect English. You discover to your horror that the Laird of the hamlet is concubining your wife and getting his teeth into your underage daughter
So, you march upon the Castle with an angry mob fully equipped with flaming torches and an array of farmery utensils - rakes and brooms and the like. Stake the Vampire as he curses the town and promises to arise again, burn the castle, and let the years pass.
Now, into town comes a circus. A myriad of attractions... well, Darth Vader, Romana I and her 'twin', a gypsy driver and 3 mirrors. All the fun of the fair PLUS a maniacal dwarf (is there any other kind, I hear you cry)!
Ah, but there be something about this Circus of Night...
Watch how the Panther laying in the cage suddenly becomes a man - than a panther - then a man, in rapid succession. Ho-hum... nothing untoward there!
Here comes the Trapeze twins - as they fly through the air, they turn into bats! Yeah, just an everyday occurrence.
Let out the panther, he pads across the ring, and jumps up to become a man! Still, the villagers (being under the threat of Vampiric plague) don't notice any undeaderry antics going on.
Hold on... Pantherman is mesmerising a young virgin of the village! Why, it's almost as if she was under a hypnotic spell, and has a compulsion to nob him in the cage!
Nah - nothing supernatural going on.
Good Grief - kids are being kidnapped! Turning up dead! Bitten on the neck!
Sod it - let's keep going to the circus each night... nothing untoward there, and it takes the mind off the possible wamphyri threat.
Hold up - someone's figured out that Pantherman is the Lairds long lost cousin, who's taken 15 years to get his arse moving to resurrect his brother! Christ Almighty - He's a VAMPIRE! And there wasn't a single clue at all!
And just who builds a staircase that leads up to a beam for no other reason that at some point in the future the Last Remaining Daughter would have to get up there to stand on the beam so she can hide behand a giant crucifix that the dozy vampire managed to miss until she stood behind it.
Deserve to get et, the lot of 'em!
Hammertime!
