Something horrific emerges from the Dark Continent beyond Nubia. An Egyptian explorer, sent by his Pharoah to map the upper reaches of the Nile, encounters a strange caravan led by the Goddess of the Moon. So begins a story that reaches across the most evil decades of Europe and into modern America. From the forest of stakes planted by Vlad the Impaler, the blood baths of Bathory, the creation of the first homunculus by the late 19th century Magi of Vienna, to the dens of iniquity in New Orleans' Storyville - the Goddess of the Moon was central to them all.