Set in 1930s Yorkshire, the Vampire Count Dracula has set up base in a ruined abbey following his journey by sea from his castle in Transylvania. Here he sets about bringing his vampire empire to England. When we join the action he has already enslaved Lucy, daughter of Dr. Seward who is the owner of a local insane asylum. Having lost his daughter, Seward sees the same illness taking over Mina, a dear friend of Lucy’s. Her condition is beyond his medical knowledge and he sends for his old friend Abraham Van Helsing. Can Van Helsing defeat Dracula before he takes Mina also to the world of the undead!?