Stoker is back y'all!!! Bram Stoker is transformed into a fictional character and beamed right into a novel of his own creation. Together with his brother and sister and a few others, they battle the ultimate force of darkness... Dracul. okay so first off I have done a lot of research on this book and the behind-the-scenes of the creation and writing of this book. Let me start off by assuring youthat Decre Stoker is in fact a real relative of Bram Stoker. He is his great-grand nephew. With that in mind let me also point out that together with his co-writer JD Barker, they got to view an original manuscript of the first edition of Dracula. That paired with the fact that Bram Stoker left a lot of notes behind and a lot of the original novel was cut out, is the essence of how this book came to be. This book is indeed written with intent on telling of the original 101 pages that were lost during the publication process of the novel Dracula. Stoker and Barker have become masters of interweaving not only their writing styles but fact along with fiction. The lines bleed together so well that you can hardly tell one from the other. To say that this book is very well written would be an understatement. Bravo to the authors as I can proudly tip my hat to this undoubtedly soon-to-be classic prequel to the original novel of Dracula. I really really enjoyed this book! so much so that I would like to reread the original novel and I would like to read Dracula's Guest as well as Decre's other novel Dracula the Undead, which is a sequel to the original novel. The original novel was so inspiring to generation upon generation and I feel that this novel is a perfect complement to it. Also I would like to say that in reading this book I definitely learned a lot about Bram Stoker and how and why he wrote the original novel that he did. a lot of what he wrote and indeed a lot of what is in this novel is true (or true folklore). In fact when Bram Stoker went to originally published his novel he wanted to have it published as non-fiction! 😳 He felt that Dracula and his legions of the undead were something evil that people needed to be warned about. And when you take into account all of the Irish folklore that he included and was inspired by in his tale, who can tell for sure? The Dark Prince might truley be out there... lurking in the shadows just beyond our reach. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes a good horror novel, REAL vampires or is a fan of Dracula lore in any way.
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