Dracula Reimagined—Ricardo Delgado's Dracula of Transylvania

All-new illustrated novel DRACULA OF TRANSYLVANIA reimagines Bram Stoker’s classic vampire story like never before!

DRACULA OF TRANSYLVANIA is a fresh, bold retelling of the classic Bram Stoker dark fairy tale with the pace of a modern thriller—a gripping new novel with incredible lavish concept art from one of Hollywood’s leading concept designers.

As a kid I noticed all of the different versions of the story, and each of them had their own particular way of excelling at a facet of the overall tale, but none fully grabbed the entire Dracula ambience and ran with it. So I made him this malevolent, powerful presence and brought the brides along on his journey as added muscle, to use gangster film lingo.—Beat interview

This all-new illustrated novel DRACULA OF TRANSYLVANIA, which features an original story and more than 20 lavish illustrations, reimagines Bram Stoker’s classic vampire story like you've never seen or read before!

“Ricardo Delgado's reimagining of Dracula is strange and bold and brilliantly original. I love it and WOULD be stunned by it if it wasn't coming from Ricardo. But brilliant is pretty much what I've come to expect from him. Still... He may have surpassed his usual brilliance here.”—Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy

1899 Transylvania bleeds of history and evil. Young Solicitor Jonathan Harker braves ghosts, demons, living skeletons, and armies of rats, as he encounters Dracula. The demonic, shapeshifting vampire imposes his wrath, malice and vengeance upon an England about to enter the Modern Era, crushing everything in his path.

Hardcover • 560 pages

Prose Novel with Full-Color and B&W Illustrations

$45.00 • ISBN: 978-1-951038-22-9

“Dark and disturbing but so BEAUTIFUL. I am always mesmerized by his artwork, now after this, it’ll be hard to sleep. Thanks Ricardo!”—GENNDY TARTAKOVSKY, Creator of PRIMAL and SAMURAI JACK


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About Ricardo Delgado 

An American-born artist/writer of Costa Rican descent, Ricardo Delgado was born in Los Angeles, California in 1964. A graduate of the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he presently teaches, Ricardo has helped design such live-action films as Apollo 13, Men inBlack, Star Trek: First Contact, Jurassic Park 3, The Matrix Reloaded and Revolution.

In Animation, Ricardo has designed for animated features like Disney’s Atlantis-The Lost Empire, Emperor’s New Groove, Pixar’s The Incredibles, Wall-e, Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon, as well as TV shows like Nickelodeon’s Avatar-The Last Airbender and Disney’s Tron-Uprising

Ricardo has worked with directors such as Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, James Cameron, John Landis, Ron Clements and John Musker as well as the Wachowskis.

Among Ricardo’s career titles are Comic Book Creator, Novelist, Director, Production Designer, Art Director, Concept Artist, Background Designer, Prop Designer, Character Designer and Storyboard Artist. 

Ricardo’s dinosaur comic book series, Age of Reptiles, for Dark Horse Comics, has been published all over the world for a quarter of a century. His first two novels are the children’s novella Sam Specter and the Book of Spells and the hard-boiled science fiction noir Warhead.

Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

https://chriswell.substack.com/
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