The Croglin Grange Vampire Attack: Cumberland, 1875

Bright moonlight showed a bony hand scraping at the bedroom window of Croglin Grange in Cumberland, 1875. Amelia Cranswell, paralyzed with fear, watched the rotten fingers probe through a shattered pane, reaching for her. The thing’s eyes burned amber as it pressed its parchment skin to the glass, never blinking. Croglin Grange had been quiet for months, but neighbors said livestock had begun to vanish, found with puncture marks in their throats. After sunrise, Amelia was discovered with bloodless wounds on her neck and a single word scratched into the sill: return.