DRACULA THE UNDEAD is reviewed at Publisher’s Weekly
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Dracula: The Un-Dead
Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt.Dutton, $26.95
(416p) ISBN 978-0- 525-95129-2
In this sequel to Bram Stoker’s Dracu-
la, his great-grandnephew offers one of
the rowdiest revisionist treatments of the
most influential vampire novel ever
written. In 1912, as Stoker labors to
adapt Dracula for the stage, its “charac-
ters” are dying gruesomely all over Lon-
don. It turns out they are as real as Stok-
er himself, who learned their secret story
on the sly and took creative liberties
when turning it into his popular penny
dreadful. Dracula’s true story involves
the passing of his blood line through
Mina Harker to her son; a malignant Dr.
Van Helsing, who Scotland Yard sus-
pects had a hand in the murders attrib-
uted to Jack the Ripper; and the exploits
of a 16th-century vampire countess,
Dracula’s former lover, who cuts a bloody
swath through London seeking the sur-
vivors of Dracula’s last stand in Transyl-
vania. Energetically paced and packed
with outrageously entertaining action,
this supernatural thriller is a well-need-
ed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula
mythos. (Oct.)
looking great i’m excited to see where its going