Madness seizes the world's vampires. Relentless hunger gnaws at them, but no matter how many victims they drain, withered vampires litter the shadows. Not since the Black Death has Owain, Ventrue elder, seen anything like this fatal affliction that ravages the world. But this time vampires are the victims. The anarchs suspect a plot by their elders. The elders blame the Sabbat. The Sabbat fears the return of the antediluvians.There is opportunity in this chaos. As the Masquerade crumbles around Owain, which power will he serve? Or will he serve himself? The first book of the Trilogy of the Blood Curse, set in the world of Vampire: The Masquerade. The story crosses over with The Grails Covenant, for Vampire: The Dark Ages.

The Trilogy of the Blood Curse continues. The Blood Curse means hunger, madness and Final Death. Owain, Ventrue elder and Sabbat spy struggles to hold the curse's madness at bay. Visions plague him every night, and haunt his daytime dreams. Drawn into the imaginations of the eldest of powers, he must choose between his masters if he hopes to survive.

The World of Darkness is the setting for all of the games in the Storyteller series, and for several fiction books. Game books listed with this icon belong to specific game lines, but together contain information that applies to the entire World of Darkness.The Trilogy of the Blood Curse reaches its awesome conclusion with this final volume, Dark Prophecy, based on the popular roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade. This novel is also the conclusion of the six-book crossover of The Grails Covenant and The Trilogy of the Blood Curse.