A travelling man of faith and learning, faced with an inexplicable death with all the hallmarks of ancient tales taught to scare children, throws himself into solving the mystery of literally bloodless deaths.

His traveling case, above, shows the fruits of his ever more sobering research: artifacts pertaining to Homo Wampyrus, and their shadowy parallel existence. From his daily tools of his study – his journal, adjustable magnifying glass and a goodly supply of the ever essential candles, to the barely believable and morbid – partial vampire skull in glass display case, comparison bloodwork slides of both vampire and human, and both teeth and blood from a revered ancient aristocrat who was secretly a vampire.

Yes, this is another stunning fictional research case from Alex (previously Cthulhu_Spawn) who also did the Lycanthropy Case and the Cthulhu Spawn in a Jar. However, much like his previous namesake, Alex has found himself in a bit of a pickle as for reasons yet unclear the above item has been removed from Ebay. It could be because the accompanying backstory (which is in a somewhat de-clawed version above) was considered too controvercial, or perhaps someone misunderstood the fictional nature of the item (including the artificiality of the blood etc) but for whatever reason, he cannot sell this through Ebay at this time. Should you wish to make this your own, then he is quite eager to receive reasonable offers via email ( skinned_bunnies [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk )  Now resubmitted to Ebay.co.uk here. More pictures, and the full (potentially contentious) backstory and more complete contents list available on the Steampunk Forum thread.