In the Footsteps of Dracula
Tales of the Un-Dead Count
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
More than thirty chilling stories and novellas featuring Bram Stoker’s King of the Vampires: Count Dracula, Prince of Darkness!
Since his creation one hundred and twenty years ago, the name of Dracula has become synonymous with the legend of the vampire and the character is one of the world’s most iconic to appear in fiction and film. Now, this history of the blood-drinking nobleman follows Dracula from his origins in Transylvania, through his travels down the decades, into a dystopian twenty-first century where vampires rule the world.
Is it possible that the Count’s condition can be cured by modern medicine? How does the mythology perpetuated by literature and movies affect the existence of a real bloodsucker? How can an immortal creature adapt to the social and technological changes that have already shaped our modern world? And what happens when Dracula turns up for his own birthday party?
These and many other questions are answered by acclaimed authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Charlaine Harris, Nancy Holder, Nancy Kilpatrick, Brian Lumley, Graham Masterton, Paul McAuley, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, F. Paul Wilson and many others, including Dracula’s original creator Bram Stoker with a long-lost version of the story first presented in 1897.
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The 33 stories and one poem in this overstuffed horror omnibus combine in a sanguinary celebration of Count Dracula and the malleability of the vampire theme. Beginning with a dramatic prologue that Bram Stoker adapted from his own landmark novel, Jones (In the Shadow of Frankenstein) organizes his selections into a "loose historical chronicle of Count Dracula" over the centuries and stitches several classic stories including Manly Wade Wellman's Dracula-versus-Nazis gem, "The Devil Is Not Mocked," and Ramsey Campbell's EC Comics style shocker, "Conversion" into a tapestry primarily fashioned from contemporary tales. Nancy Holder's "Blood Freak" recounts Dracula's meeting with Timothy Leary. Brian Hodge proposes a Pope Dracula in "The Last Testament." In Kim Newman's behind-the-scenes tell-all, "Coppola's Dracula," the movie's fiasco-filled filming is clearly modeled on Apocalypse Now. Not all of the book's stories feature Dracula himself Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse zinger, "Dracula Night," tantalizes with his possible appearance but all attest vividly to the long shadow he has cast over supernatural fiction.
