 Two teenagers making out in the cemetery get the scare of their lives when a man crawls out of a grave. Jessica s house needs electric and plumbing repairs, but her handyman Charles Wetherby is called away to her anger by grumpy rich client Lawrence Baker who recently moved into the mansion Borbey House, a huge contract. Dr. Howard Sorenson, the visiting grave riser, congratulates Jessica in the library on her book research on sepulchers, in his occult field of research. Jessica s assistant Molly Holt s boyfriend Dave Perrin keeps looking for his sister Laurel who s missing since 18 months. Another nightly teenage couple is scared to death when they find- in daylight, just an mannequin arm. Wetherby cancels Jessica s repairs after Baker agreed to structural work on a wall, doubling the restoration contract price. Molly s dad, a local shopkeeper, refuses to deal with Baker after finding out nobody knows about him and he only pays cash. Lauren s corps is found on a boat. Dr. Howard Sorenson is caught snooping in Baker s place, and reacts like a vampire killer; next Sheriff Mort Metzger and Jessica are called to Baker s body in Borbey House, murdered with a wooden stake, but not the ash-wood required according to vampire literature. Sorenson reports he found William Borbey s grave was empty; the name Borbey is the Hungarian equivalent of Baker; Sorenson points out Baker never left in daylight, kept no mirrors and may thus still be an undead vampire. Baker s butler Peter Jatich s fingerprints match an ex-Stasi. Jessica figures out how everything ties together.