Things are not quite as they seem when Darcy Adare, an amateur collector of Irish supernatural folklore, is asked to investigate reports of a vampire haunting the ruins of the fifteenth century Muckross Abbey and the surrounding Muckross estate. Set in 1880 in Killarney, Ireland, Darcy Adare and the Muckross Vampire sweeps the reader into the world of Late-Victorian Irish county life; a world in which encounters with ghosts, fairies and other supernatural entities were commonly accepted aspects of everyday life.