Stoker's Wilde West

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - OUTSTANDING

After the battle with the Order of the Golden Dawn and the Black Bishop and his vampire followers, life has changed. Bram Stoker has tried to put his gift/curse and the incidents in Greystones behind him. He is striving to be a loving husband to Florence and loving father to Noel. He is still doing a fine job for Henry Irving, managing and directing at the Lyceum Theatre.

As for Oscar Wilde, he has made a trip to America and is lecturing. But on Wilde’s return to London he’s in a panic and seeks out Stoker to help with Willie Wilde. Willie is Oscar’s older brother and a friend to Bram. As usual, Oscar and Bram are always at odds with each other until they face the unfathomable. The lure of Willie’s dilemma and a chance for Stoker to use his gift again, has him joining Oscar on the hunt for the werewolf, Willie.

As things settle down once again, Bram, Florence and Noel are getting ready to travel to America. Florence will be acting, along side Ellen Terry and she’s trying to avoid any conflicts. At the last minute, the nanny has informed Florence she will not be traveling with them. Florence is interviewing for the position and brings danger into her home. Even though Captain Burton had said the vampires were gone, some still remained. Once again Stoker and Wilde have to team up to get rid of another.

Again in search of the Realm and vampires, Henry Irving and Bram will travel out west into a new and strange territory. But once again, they are faced with vampires; John Fisher King aka the Pale Horseman and Thomas Drumpf, son to William Drumpf a wealthy mining baron, who has control over many people. Once Bram and Henry have fought another battle, they think they can now return to Salt Lake City. But the train breaks down in Carson City and Bram and Henry find themselves on wanted posters.

As Bram and Henry have not been heard from, Florence Stoker becomes worried and telegrams Oscar Wilde to come and help find Bram. Along with Florence and Wilde they will be joined by: the Rosevelts, Calamity Jane, US Marshall, Bass Reeves, and Shada, who will lead them to the Yahi tribe. Of course the White Worm Society and agent Cora Chase will be aiding or interfering in all that goes on.

Who will survive this new and horrific adventure into this new world out west? What will become of Henry Irving as he searches for the Realm with the Vellum Manuscript?

“Stoker’s Wilde West” is the second epic, paranormal novel of historical facts/fiction and figures of that era. Steven Hopstaken and Melissa Prusi are just amazing at the amount of research that goes into each novel. The novel is once again compiled by: journals, diaries, letters and the White Worm Society reports in the views of: Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Florence Stoker, Bass Reeves, Calamity Jane, Agent Cora Chase, Sammuel Clemens and Walt Whitman, Robert and his nephew Theodore Roosevelt and Alejo “Lobo” Lopez and Luz Lopez, Yahi tribe and Chief Ishi and Shaman Dacala and many more.

As I became immersed in this twisted, suspenseful, action filled, gothic horror novel there was never a moment to put the book down. The characters, whether real or fiction will come alive. The authors expertly written novel will start to bring out comparisons in many fictional characters along with facts for those that really existed throughout history. The writing is so authentic that you can’t help questioning if these incidents really happened. Oscar Wilde is someone I have become very interested in and will find there are others throughout the novel that are speculated to have the same proclivities as he. Of course, Bram Stoker is also a favorite. I was very glad to see the recognition given to one of the first Black, US Marshal’s, Bass Reeves.

There is so much more to this novel, than what I have mentioned. I was thoroughly entertained with the western history as it’s another new world adventure for Stoker and Wilde. “Stoker’s Wilde West” is just as fantastic as the first novel “Stoker’s Wilde” and for those that love twisted paranormal and horror in the 19th century Victorian age they will not be disappointed in either of these novels.