Corbin as a child

Our main protagonist was born in London, England in the late Victorian Era (1891). On September 29, 1893, when he two years old, he was taken by Lucy Westenra, a newly created vampire. He was to be another of her nocturnal victims, but was rescued by a group of vampire hunters led by Abraham Van Helsing.

Other than this perturbing event - of which his conscious mind scarcely remembers at all, but occasionally haunts his dreams - his childhood existance was very mundane.

Corbin never really knew what his parents did for a living. They simply existed as vague figures who owned, fed and kept him inside a narrow but tall house in London.

Both were fat, jovial and boring. They reminded Corbin of a lazy elephant he had seen at the London Zoo.

His father and mother each had one pastime which was to read the business newspaper and scandalous penny dreadfuls, respectively. This they indulged even while sitting together at dinner and tea time. They all but ignored their son who was mostly attended to by his grandmother.

in 1910, Corbin's family moved to Boston where his father had found a great business opportunity and needed to re-locate.

More to come shortly.

For further research on the city of Boston:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston#Culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sites_of_interest_in_Boston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_in_Boston