Sorry Bryster, it was a joke making reference to a supporting character in the old Universal Dracula films of the '30s. He was Drac's assistant and I'm not sure if Drac ever really turned him into a vampire. He was captured and put in an asylum for biting people and there he mostly subsisted on spiders, refusing the food they gave him. Sorry, my humor can be way out in left field sometimes. Just call me "danamo the obscure".