Professor Timothy Eliot Stokes was a stout, serious-minded individual who considered himself to be a man-of-the-world. He was a well-educated writer, scholar, occultist and world traveler.

Stokes conspired with Roger Collins to track the vampire down and destroy Barnabas Collins for good. They went to a chapel monastery within the ruins of a castle on St. Eustace Island. When they arrived however, they discovered that neither of them was a match for the vampire. Barnabas attacked Stokes and drank his blood until he died. In a matter of hours, Stokes rose as a vampire himself.

He stalked off into the night and confronted a man named Jeff Clark near the north cove of the island. He lunged at him prepared to bite his throat, but Jeff pushed him against a tree and fired a silver bullet into his heart, killing him.