Before he was the greatest wizard of all time Merlin was a simple farmer. And then he met the thief Hector who whisks him into an adventure beyond imagining.

In the not too distant future, thanks to global warming, Montevideo, Uruguay, is a city under siege from swarms of mosquitoes and the deadly dengue fever they carry. As the diseased bodies pile up in the streets, pragmatic Police Sergeant Pronzini must solve the murder of an esteemed entomologist in order to unlock the true secret of a specific type of dengue infection that may just change the face of humanity forever.

One by one, they disappear. The ship Demeter is traveling from Romania to Whitby, England with a mysterious cargo of coffins. As the crew is beset by an horrific killer, the remaining sailors turn on each other in fear and paranoia. Only when it's too late do they realize their cargo carries the vampire Dracula. An original full-color horror story based on Bram Stoker's classic novel, Forty Coffins is the story of Dracula's journey to England told from the point-of-view of the ship's crew.