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Dracul

Dacre Stoker,

J.D. Barker

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Sex and the Romanticism of Vampires.
By Dan , destroyer of vegan vampire sissies · 21 posts · 10 views

last updated Dec 28, 2018 07:03PM

All the other recent vampire stuff besides Twilight is now lame too.
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last updated Jul 02, 2016 08:27AM

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Mar 05, 2019 Dan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: vampires, horror, dracula, adventure, 2019-reading-challenge

There have been many things written and said about this book, most of them positive so it's hard to know what to say. Okay, I'll start with this. If you are...as I am myself...a die-hard fan of the original Dracula...then you are in for a treat indeed!

This was much better than Dacre's other book Dracula The Un-Dead, which claimed to be the true sequel yet almost completely divorced itself from the original story ( I did not dislike Dracula The Un-Dead, I read it three times.).

This book claims ...more

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Jan 09, 2019 Kacey rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I love Dracula, which is why I wanted to read this, and it was such a lovely homage to the original. I didn't know what to expect, as it is actually a prequel, about Bram Stoker's life and its happenings and how it influenced his writing Dracula. It is not a biography, but since Stoker may have truly believed in Dracula, imagines a story to explain how and why. The parts of his life and family that are true are detailed at the end in the notes, which I won't spoil by listing, but if you love a g ...more

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