It is late in the Nineteenth Century and monsters stalk the narrow cobbled backstreets of a gaslit Victorian London.
On the heath strange stories about the Bloofer Lady, whom Stoker's novel would reveal as Lucy Westenra, tempts the children with sweet delights, behind which lie the sharper points of fangs.
Blood in the Milk is a gothic tale that explores the relationship between mothers and monsters, vampires and those other creatures who feed on the young in the dark.