Dracula The Un-Dead

The Sequel to the Original Classic

By Dacre Stoker

Yes, you read that correctly a sequel to the original classic Dracula story written by Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew. I was intrigued.

This was a compelling story with a lot of action and enough horror, which would make it a really good movie. The author and his co-writer did a lot of research and worked to create a sequel that Bram might have made based on his diaries, old writings and letters. This was also an attempt, stated by the author, to get some of the royalties of Dracula back into the family. Any version of Dracula, plays, movies or otherwise, created here in America never paid the proper royalties to the Stoker family.

This was an interesting story, a good easy read and some compelling re-invention of the original Dracula story. It is well written. There is definitely re-invention so you kind of have to keep an open mind when reading it. I don't have any purist ideas about what a real vampire is so it was easy for me to kind of roll with the adaptations. I guess there is some online controversy about it in the vampire community (meaning those who read vampire books).

I think this is an important book in the genre and well worth the read!

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