Imagine your best friend dying a grotesque death. Her killer isn't human. What seems to be a vampire killed her.
During your confrontation with her killer, a dog saves your life. It has the ability to communicate. It stays for a year, and you move on. Then, ten years later, the killer returns, and the dog.
The grotesque deaths have returned. Your mother is sick, then recovers from what seems like a certain death.
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