Silent Screamers: Nosferatu 1922 is a comic book based on Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror,
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In Alphabet City, Manhattan, a young boy celebrates stealing from his grandfather's wallet during a Puerto Rican Day Parade. Taking the money and throwing the wallet away, he kicks a cat. Entering Psycho Toyz, he pushes another boy, Anthony, aside. He rudely asks the clerk, Jay, where the Silent Screamers line is and is told that they are in Aisle 13 and he only has one minutes. He is warned not to mess with the displays, but seeing the Nosferatu figure on a high shelf, he climbs to the top, knocking other toys aside as he climbs.
As he takes the figure, he loses his grip and falls. A jack-in-the-box lands in his lap and springs open, unleashing a sinister jester-like entity. He asks the boy if he likes monsters and offers to tell him a story about him, binding him in snakelike belts. He begins telling a story that begins in Wisborg, Germany about one hundred and fifty years previously. Knock, a real estate agent, is the servant of the last of the undead, Count Orlok. He receives a letter from his master, who tells him to find a house for him in the town.
Knock gives his assistant, Thomas Hutter, the task of selling a house to Orlok. He tells him that it will be a great opportunity for him, though it will be challenging and may cost him a little blood. Thomas has just married Ellen, the most beautiful woman in the town, and wishes to provide for her. She is as devoted as a wife can be, leaving the entity to speculate must really lay some pipe to make her miss him like that. Despite the fears of his family and friends, Thomas is confident, with living in a peaceful place having dulled his fears.
Thomas rides for several days and reaches Transylvania. He stops at an inn, where the occupants think he is crazy for planning to visit Orlok. He takes a carriage up the mountain, but once they reach the foothills, the coachmen refuse to take him further. Thomas continues of foot and is met by a carriage driven by a sinister coachman. Travelling through a wolf-infested forest, they reach Castle Orlok. Thomas enters the castle, where he is greet by no servants and the portcullis slams shut behind him. He meets Orlok and dines with him as he reads the contract. As the clock strikes midnight, Thomas accidentally cuts his thumb on a bread knife, causing Orlok to lunge at him. Ellen awakes in Wisborg as she feels his terror from afar. Orlok sees an image of Ellen in Thomas' locket and grows fixated as her as she gains a feeling that she is being hunted.
Thomas awakes the next morning, unable to believe what happened the previous night. Seeing blood on his clothing, he concludes that he must have been bitten by mosquitoes. He searches the deserted castle and enters the crypt, where he finds Orlok sleeping in a coffin. In Wisborg, Knock is committed to an asylum. He is visited by Ellen and gives her a book on vampires. Back in Transylvania, Thomas looks out the window of his bedroom and sees Orlok leaving on a carriage with several coffins. He ties several bedsheets together and climbs down the side of the castle. Orlok boards the Empusa and kills the crew, taking control of the ship.
Ellen is consumed by terror as she feels Orlok approaching faster than he beloved Thomas. Knock escapes the from the asylum to aid his master. Thomas reaches Ellen first, but Orlok arrives in Wisborg and unleashes a horde of rats, afflicting the town with the plague. Ellen reads the book given to her by Knock and realizes that Orlok now occupies the house across from theirs. Learning what she must do, she wakes Thomas, feigns sickness and tells him to fetch a doctor. Once he leaves their house, he is attacked by Knock.
Ellen opens her window in invitation and as Thomas is distracted by his struggle with Knock, Orlok enters the house. Ellen almost runs, but allows herself to fall under Orlok's spell. As Thomas and Knock continue to fight, Orlok feeds on Ellen's blood, growing intoxicated from it. The sun rises and its light destroys Orlok. Ellen dies and Thomas despairs, doomed to never know why his wife died.
As the jester concludes his tale, the boy is unmoved and states that the story has not inspired him to change his ways. The jester reveals that this was never his intention, as those who join Asylum Jack in the box are generally beyond redemption. As the boy makes fun of his name, Jack sets him on fire, promising him that he will be immortalised.
Two weeks later, Anthony, enters the shop to look at some new arrivals. He discovers something he must have; a one of a kind figure called Toast Boy.