About the FVZA

Cover page from a June, 1941 preliminary report on the Zozobra Project, the secret U.S. drive to find a vampirism vaccine. The report concluded that a concerted American effort could create a vaccine in five to ten years. However, work on the vaccine did not begin in earnest until 1944, when reports reached President Roosevelt's office of a Nazi plan to unleash hordes of vampiric POWs on advancing Allied forces. The first successful test of the vaccine took place in 1950.