VAMPIRE

The True Documented Case of the Vampire of Düsseldorf

EDITORIAL REVIEW

Relentless, restrained, and deeply unsettling, VAMPIRE is prestige horror at its most disciplined.
Ted Lazaris builds terror not through spectacle, but through absence—forcing readers to confront a city that learns how to live with the unacceptable. With cinematic pacing, psychological precision, and an ending that lingers long after the final page, this is documented terror that refuses comfort and delivers consequence.

VAMPIRE
The True Documented Case of the Vampire of Düsseldorf

In the final years of the Weimar Republic, Düsseldorf was gripped by a series of assaults unlike any the city had recorded.

Victims were attacked without warning.
The wounds were deliberate.
Blood loss was excessive—and intentional.

Children were found collapsed near riverbanks and footpaths.
Women were discovered alive but drained, unable to explain why they had not resisted.
Medical reports noted bite wounds, controlled bleeding, and an absence of defensive injury.

Police struggled to classify the crimes.
They were not robberies.
They were not crimes of passion.
They showed restraint, patience, and repetition.

The man eventually taken into custody did not claim madness or possession.
He offered no mythology.
He stated calmly that blood was necessary.

VAMPIRE reconstructs the documented Düsseldorf case through police files, forensic reports, psychiatric examinations, and court testimony, tracing a pattern of predation that defied the criminal frameworks of the time. The violence followed ritual and biological conviction rather than impulse, leaving investigators unable to explain how such behavior could exist within an ordinary citizen.

There are no legends in these pages.
No superstition.
No explanations that bring relief.

Only the recorded evidence of a man who fed, a city that endured, and an inquiry that revealed how thin the boundary between civilization and predation truly was.

This is not a story about folklore.
It is the true documented case of the Vampire of Düsseldorf.