 The dog of an innkeeper saves a woman from being bitten by Count Igor Dracula (Michael Pataki).Furious over losing his meal to a dog, Dracula, in bat form, bites the woman's savior, turning the dog into a vampire.Then Dracula, with the dog by his side, turns on his owner, turning the innkeeper into a creature called a "fractional lamia" (an undead creature that is only part vampire, able to function in the daytime and having no need to drink blood) and thus turns him into a slave of the Dracula family.