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Slains Castle's Secret History: Warlords, Churchill, and Count Dracula
“Historical fiction at its most entertaining!"
Slains Castle is a remote castle in the north of Scotland with shadowy links to Bram Stoker and Dracula.
A castle with secrets.
Big secrets...
Secrets, which are revealed in this unique collection of extraordinary stories. Written like a historical thriller, Slains Castle’s Secret History is a work of incredible historical fiction - everything within is set around real events.
A few tasty morsels to whet the appetite:
What connects Slains Castle with the Spanish Armada of 1588?
When a French secret agent visited Slains Castle in 1705 and 1707, how did he inadvertently influence the formation of the United Kingdom?
What was the mysterious black rain of Slains?
What happened when Bram Stoker, great-grand uncle of co-author Dacre Stoker, wrote Dracula under the shadow of Slains Castle?
Why did Winston Churchill visit the prime minister’s daughter in Slains Castle just before his wedding? And much, much more...
Slains Castle is a remote castle in the north of Scotland with shadowy links to Bram Stoker and Dracula.
A castle with secrets.
Big secrets...
Secrets, which are revealed in this unique collection of extraordinary stories. Written like a historical thriller, Slains Castle’s Secret History is a work of incredible historical fiction - everything within is set around real events.
A few tasty morsels to whet the appetite:
What connects Slains Castle with the Spanish Armada of 1588?
When a French secret agent visited Slains Castle in 1705 and 1707, how did he inadvertently influence the formation of the United Kingdom?
What was the mysterious black rain of Slains?
What happened when Bram Stoker, great-grand uncle of co-author Dacre Stoker, wrote Dracula under the shadow of Slains Castle?
Why did Winston Churchill visit the prime minister’s daughter in Slains Castle just before his wedding? And much, much more...
302 pages, Paperback
First published September 20, 2021
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About the author
Mike Shepherd
8 books5 followersI live in the village where Dracula was written, a privilege I share with 1,400 souls. This is Cruden Bay in Scotland, a beautiful old fishing village on the coast of Aberdeenshire.
I've added to the local literary tradition by writing books on the oil industry (big in the local area) and Bram Stoker's life and times here.
I'm incredibly lucky to find that Bram Stoker's visits here have never been researched properly before by anyone. A huge story just fell into my lap - the unknown story of what happened when Dracula was written.
I love epic themes sourced through both geology and history. Geology, call it Earth history, tells us a great deal about where we came from and the planet we live on. In a way my book about Bram Stoker is epic too. It's clear that Cruden Bay was where he connected to his thoughts about the greater universe.
I'm currently working on my next book - that's epic too...
I've added to the local literary tradition by writing books on the oil industry (big in the local area) and Bram Stoker's life and times here.
I'm incredibly lucky to find that Bram Stoker's visits here have never been researched properly before by anyone. A huge story just fell into my lap - the unknown story of what happened when Dracula was written.
I love epic themes sourced through both geology and history. Geology, call it Earth history, tells us a great deal about where we came from and the planet we live on. In a way my book about Bram Stoker is epic too. It's clear that Cruden Bay was where he connected to his thoughts about the greater universe.
I'm currently working on my next book - that's epic too...
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