Bluebeard. That was who came out victorious from the power struggle in Europe after Dracula left. It was a bloodbath. He didn't follow Dracula's rules, didn't enforce any of his own. Spring-Heeled Jack came after him, and the Ripper after that, about a decade before I was born. We had to break our own rules to keep them all under control. Flooded entire cities with incense. Burned about a fifth of London, in the end, to be rid of Spring-Heel because he would have done so much worse.

[ It's easier to talk about this. Easier to focus on the horrors that they managed to defeat, on the ones that are yet to come, than on the ones of the present. ]

Are you really sure?