Publisher's Synopsis
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 Czech journalist who passed it to a CIA case officer in Prague. As novel and interesting as this them might be, this material was officially declared to be of no value to American security interests abroad. Subsequently re-routed to N.A.T.O.'s Supreme Allied Command Europe for dissemination, it was judged as equally irrelevant by said offices and relayed back to the United States as declassified. Eventually ordered to be destroyed in the late 1970's at the San Francisco Presidio Military Base Library in the Mid-1980s, it was rescued by Douglas Dietrich who was assigned to burn it. He has since added his comments, interpretations and wisdom to the subject.Although vamphyr do not conform to the stereotypical descriptions found in Hollywood, there are hauntingly similar aspects that echo the phantasmagorical characteristics ascribed to such creatures. It is an occult history which only sees the light of day in this publication.
