A brief review of "Vamphyrology: The Vampire Research Paper"

The book  "Vamphyrology: The Vampire Research Paper" (Sky Books (November 17, 2020) is essentially a plagiarization of the work of an obscure, unknown Russian physician and professor "Feodor Stepanovich Andreiev," or material from an obscure magazine article or other publication embellished by or created by Dietrich himself.

An ISBN search clearly shows the author as Peter Moon:

The 312-page (3,628 words) book is challenging to read, primarily because of Dietrich's misuse of Russian vocabulary and the confusing spelling of words and terms that he apparently created himself.

His comments throughout are often an annoying distraction to the "story" and despite a year-long effort by his "co-author" Peter Moon to edit the manuscript, the result is a work of obvious (and messy) fiction writing.

The book begins with an introduction but has only 2 "chapters." The subject is the existence and study of a sub-species of humanlike vampires by an obscure Russian physician and professor who lectured on the subject from 1969 to 1972 at the University of Kiev.

Dietrich claimed the lectures were of a "highly classified subject matter" involving the medical internment of a "human subspecies" at a remote arctic facility in Novaya Zemlya prior to and after 1969-72.

"Patient Zero", a "homo sapien primate" (whose identity was never disclosed) was incarcerated at the Leningrad Psychiatric Institute in September 1940 under the observation of Dr. Andreiev. The patient claimed to be at least 70 years old but appeared to be in his early 20s.

The Patient was later determined fit for military service during WW2 despite having been discovered "feeding off schizophrenic male patients in their sleep." Dr. Andreiev had discovered the patient was "high" and experiencing altered states of consciousness after ingesting other patients' blood.

"Patient Zero" later assaulted a female military nurse on the Eastern Front after being "forcefully conscripted" into the Soviet Army Special Services. But further references to "patient zero" do not appear in the book after.

The story suddenly turns to the use of similar "vampires" by the Russians against the Germans in Berlin during WW2. "Unnatural Units" attacked and killed innocent civilians and German soldiers alike as Russian "political officers" using dogs, searched for and located victims for the vampires.

The vampires were later executed by the Soviets using machine guns. Later, "Kirlian" cameras were used to track down, apprehend and kill the species in Russia after the war. 

But according to his questionable source, the Soviets later decided to use a nuclear weapons test to kill the inhabitants of Navaja Zemlya using the Tsar Bomba: on October 30, 1961. 

Location of Tsar Bomb Detonation Oct 30, 1961

The "covert special research and education facility" was then created on Navaja Zemlya near Russkaja Gavan in 1966.

The remote Arctic facility housed a concentration of "Vamphyr Primates" in harsh weather with conditions of darkness for 6 months of the year. Despite this, many of the vampires were able to escape using flows of ice broken up by Soviet ships.

Russian Spetznaz then guarded the colony armed with AKs using "hollow-point silver slugs filled with crushed garlic. Dietrich claims that the vampires then escaped or avenged themselves by killing the soldiers who they considered an inferior species and referred to as "white niggers" accusing them of racism and "anti-vampire demcism (sic)."

The vampires were later able to secret themselves within the Russian population and emigrated to the United States as "displaced persons". Operating as an "unofficial fifth column", they later killed 14, 400 Americans per year.

But at the approximate 1,600 word count, the story devolves into a disjointed reciting of "military" history ranging from the 1700s to WW2 and the Cold War with an obvious anti-American sentiment.  

At the 2,275 word point, the book suddenly begins to repeat large portions of previously written information from the introduction and descriptions of "Patient Zero."

It then returns to the tedious subject of "vampire science/biology" where Dietrich describes the female vampire:

It finally finishes with an abrupt ending where Dietrich accuses the professor of dehumanizing and abusing the captive vampires and likens him to Soviet Biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov.

No mention was ever made of the fact that the remote arctic area of Novaya Zemlya had been used as a testing zone for Soviet nuclear weapons since 1954.

A revised version of my previous post about the book and the issue of the plagiarizing of the book's cover photo and the questionable origin of the material used as the basis for the book can be read here:

https://rkcolejr.blogspot.com/2020/11/blog-post.html