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Debut author Royce Prouty offers a spellbinding tale of history, folklore, destiny, and redemption.
Joseph Barkeley has a gift. Without the aid of chemical testing, he can accurately determine the authenticity and age of any document, seeing details within the fibers the way a composer picks out the individual notes of a symphony. But rarely does Joseph get a job this delicate and well-paying. A mystery buyer has hired him to authenticate the original draft of Bram Stokers Dracula.
When he travels to Transylvania to personally deliver the manuscript to the legendary Bran Castle, Barkeley, a Romanian orphan himself, soon realizes that his employer is the son of the infamous Vlad Dracula. Imprisoned in the castle and forced to serve the Master,” Barkeley must quickly decipher cryptic messages hidden within Stokers masterpiece to find the Masters long-lost brideor risk wearing out his welcome.
But as he delves into the history of Dracula and his own lineage, Barkeley discovers that his selection for this job was based on more than his talent with rare books. Now, he has a perilous decision to makesave his life with a cowards flight, or wage a deadly battle with an ancient foe.
Review
A Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award finalist for best first novel!
"[A]lmost impossible not to keep reading. Proutys careful, sometimes daring mingling of history and legend with fiction makes for a tantalizing novel in which he interweaves, to great effect, some of the mysteries surrounding the genesis of Draculas writing."—John Edgar Browning, editor of The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker
"Proutys debut, a riveting novel of supernatural suspense, deftly mixes fact and fiction involving the manuscript of Bram Stokers great vampire novel, Dracula."—Dacre Stoker, coauthor of Dracula the Un-Dead
"Proutys debut novel will stoke the interest of Dracula lovers everywhere."—Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis
The authoritative sequel to Bram Stoker's original horror classic.
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?
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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.
Synopsis
Written by a direct descendant of Bram Stoker and a well-known Dracula historian, "Dracula: The Un-Dead" is a bone-chilling sequel based on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition.
About the Author
Dacre Stoker is the great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker. He lives in South Carolina with his family.
Ian Holt is a Dracula documentarian, historian, and screenwriter. He lives on Long Island.