Between the years of 1969 through 1972, medical lectures were delivered by Professor Feodor Stepanovich Adreiev at the University of Kiev on the subject of an actual physiologically identified sub-species of homo sapiens referred to as vamphyr (plural and singular being the same). A dissident graduate medical student, alarmed and discouraged by his selection for impending assignment to the Arctic, vindictively slipped the collection to a sympathetic...