Sixty-two million years ago, a craft from deepest space invaded the atmosphere on a collision course with Earth. The twelve creatures aboard, what humans would come to call vampires, rested in suspended animation, ready to be woken before landing by the onboard artificial intelligence system. However, the system had malfunctioned, meaning even when the craft crashed heavily into the African jungle, near what is known today as Egypt, the vampires remained in stasis. The seven Neanderthals who found them, a man and his wife, their two children aged nine and eight, and another male and female, dragged the strange cylinders with the peculiar creatures inside to their cave where they stood them upright. Like them, the humanoids inside had two arms, legs, eyes, and they had heads. The only diff

