Following the great war, a plague drifted across Europe. Sure, some say it was the Spanish flu that killed all those people. They're wrong -- it's a vampire plague that turns people into vampire/zombies who can talk. Lord Baltimore is a lone warrior fighting the zombie hordes, tracking the vampire who started the whole thing in the Dead Man's land between the trenches. And he's got a peg leg! This first volume lays out the vast, strange reach of the curse, which employs a creepy fungal growth as well as the usual agents for raising the dead. Fortunately, Baltimore seems immune to the contagion. A decent first outing. I look forward to seeing where it goes.