 Some consider "The Space Vampires" to be so Lovecraftian that authors such as Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce have classed it as actually being a part of the Cthulhu mythos.Rosemary Guiley describes" The Space Vampires" as being "inspired" by the Cthulhu mythos.In the late twenty-first century, far out in a nearby asteroid belt, a gigantic derelict castle-like alien spacecraft is discovered by the space exploration vehicle "Hermes," commanded by Captain Olof Carlsen.