nita Blake is a vampire hunter and animator. Anita and her boss Bert Vaughn are asked to do a job by Harold Gaynor. Anita finds that it's a job she will not do human sacrifice. Harold Gaynor thinks offering more money will change Anita's mind but he didn't know Anita very well. Anita is helping the police's RPIP Dolph Storr. Some preternatural creature is murdering small families in their homes and it's up to Anita to solve this mystery. Dolph asks for a list of people who could raise the dead and Anita frowns at this request. Anita also learns that the Master of the City wants to speak with her and Anita hopes that Jean~Claude would forget about her but no such luck. Anita needs more information that only Irving Griswald, a reporter of St. Louis Dispatcher, can give her. Dead David hopes that Anita will do the wise thing and meet with the Master but Anita never said she was either wise or smart. Anita meets with Dominga Salvador, a powerful vaudan prietess, with Manny. Anita wants nothing to do with Dominga Salvador or her crazy schemes. Domigna warned Anita that she would be sorry. Jean~Claude wants Anita to play human servant to secure his power based yet he would allow Anita her freedom as much as he could. What is Harold Gaynor and Dominga Salvador hiding? Will Anita solve this case? Will She play Jean~Claude's games? Who wants to harm Anita? Your answers await you in The Laughing Corpse.