Chapter 10 Summary

In Chapter 10, we hear the story of how both Simon and his older brother Christopher became vampires, and how they ended up where they were in Zoe's home suburb of Oakwood.

Simon explains that he was born in the Seventeenth century near the city of Bristol in the west of England, Great Britain to a fairly wealthy family. His father was a merchant who had just had a second child (himself) at the time of the family portrait as he was becoming successful. It was at this time that a mysterious foreigner named Wulfram Von Grab came into their life, pretending to offer their family many lucrative contracts with his own businessmen in the east of Europe. Von Grab stays at the family house where is is charming and witty, but soon his true intention becomes clear as one of the servants encounters...