The current craze for vampire themes - all these Twilight, New Moons, etc. - has long outgrown the scale of ordinary literary fashion, turning into a real VAMPIRE CULT, sick, vicious and extremely dangerous. After all, this is not just a youth subculture - the origins of the bloody vampire cult are lost in the abyss of time, taking us back to the monstrous eras of human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism - and even deeper, into the prehistoric world of blood-sucking parasites and carnivorous plants. What in this cult is fiction, and what is based on proven facts? How many cases of real vampirism have scientists recorded? Is blood addiction a mental disorder or a dangerous epidemic that anyone can fall victim to? Who are vampires really - characters from legends or an alien hostile race for which humanity is feedstock, the lowest link in the food chain? Who and why teaches our children to love and honor bloodsuckers? And what other blood mysteries do we have to unravel in order to win this centuries-old war?