Louis goes out for a walk and quickly realizes that another vampire is following him. He is surprised and excited that he finally encounters another vampire; however, he is quickly angered. After several moments of being tormented and ridiculed by him, Louis calls this trickster vampire a buffoon. When he leaves, another vampire, Armand, is there and approaches him with an invitation to attend the Theatre of the Vampires the next night. Louis and Claudia go together to see their performance. The vampires onstage perform a skit pretending to be death. They bring a mortal woman out and kill her while the audience unwittingly looks on, not knowing that they are seeing a real performance.
After the show is over, Louis and Claudia meet with Armand in a downstairs room.....
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