From the international bestselling author of Dracul comes the authoritative sequel to Bram Stoker’s original horror classic.
London, 1912. A quarter of a century after Count Dracula “crumbled into dust,” Quincey Harker—the son of Jonathan and Mina Harker—leaves law school to pursue a career on stage, only to stumble upon the troubled production of Dracula, directed and produced by Bram Stoker himself.
As the play plunges Quincey into the world of his parents' terrible secrets, death begins to stalk the original band of heroes that defeated Dracula a quarter-century ago. Could it be that the count survived and is now seeking revenge? Or is there another, far more sinister force at work whose relentless purpose is to destroy anything and anyone associated with Dracula, the most notorious vampire of all time...
Dracula the Un-Dead is the true sequel to Bram Stoker’s classic novel, written by his direct descendant and a well-known Dracula historian. Dracula the Un-Dead provides answers to all the questions that the original novel left unexplained, as well as new insights into the world of iniquity and fear lurking just beneath the surface of polite Victorian England.
I picked up this book on a whim because I was stuck in an airport nearly done with the novel I had brought with me and the thought of a sequel to Dracula, which I read in college, was intriguing.
After about 10 or 15 chapters I was so confused about what happened in the original novel, that I actually dug out my copy of Dracula and re-read it before continuing with Dracula The Un-Dead. Perhaps that was a mistake because after finishing B. Stoker's original novel and picking up the sequel brought to light all the plots points and characters that were changed from the original novel. I found it amazing that the entire plot line of the original novel was shifted to get D. Stoker/Holt's plot to fit within the timeframe of the Ripper murders and the launching of a famous ship. I was also floored by one revelation at the end of the novel, which I don't think is even possible whether you believe vampires could exist or not. It also made me flashback to Stephanie Meyer's last Twilight novel, Breaking Dawn.
I've read other novels that alter or make you look at classic fiction in a new light that I have really enjoyed. This was not the case with Dracula the Un-Dead. My advice, stick with the original and if you want modern vampire fiction, check out Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris or Elisabeth Kostova's The Historian.
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