Everyone knows the story of Dracula. Few know the truth behind it.

In 1897, a conspiracy of church, press, and aristocracy needed the world to believe in vampires, and they had everything they required to make it happen: respectable witnesses, altered diaries, and a people who could not fight back.

You Were Our Monster gathers the letters, the journals, the asylum logs, and the household ledgers that the official record left out. A solicitor agrees the terms of a contract he does not understand until it is too late. A housemaid watches from the edges of rooms where powerful men speak freely. A clergyman counts his profits in the margins of his correspondence. Read together, these documents tell a different story of Dracula, and they name the people the legend buried.

You already know how the story ends. You just never knew whose story it was.