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Dracula books by Bram Stoker and Dacre Stoker

Chris Well

Relating the Dracula novels from the creator and his descendant.

While Bram Stoker wasn’t the first author to write about vampires, his 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula made such an impact that every vampire story since then has been affected.

Dacre Stoker is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead, the official Stoker family endorsed sequel to Dracula. He also co-wrote the prequel Dracul. Dacre is also the co-editor of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years.

Dacre Stoker told Starburst that his goal is to simply contribute to my great-granduncle’s legacy through his writing—both fictional and non-fiction—and through giving lectures to interested audiences.

“Many people around the world are familiar with the Dracula story, but I have found that there are far less who are familiar with its author, his life, and his research and writing of his best-known novel.” (SOURCE)

Stoker and his wife manage the Bram Stoker Estate.  

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Dracula
Bram Stoker

Since its publication in 1897, Bram Stoker's novel Dracula has enthralled generations of readers with the alluring malevolence of its undead Count, the most famous vampire in literature.

Though Bram Stoker did not invent vampires, his novel helped usher them to iconic stature, launching a whole genre of storytelling that continues to flourish more than a hundred years on. A century of copycats has done nothing to decrease the public’s interest in Stoker’s charming but deadly monster as he stalks his prey—whether in a Transylvanian castle, a British insane asylum, or the homes of his swooning victims. A classic of Gothic horror, Dracula is a lasting story that continues to entice readers even today.

“Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.”—Fantasy Book Review

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Dracula the Un-Dead: The Sequel to the Original Classic
Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt

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.

“Pushes the story in unexpected directions while remaining true to the dark heart of the Transylvanian vampire-king.”—Los Angeles Times

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Dracul
Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker

The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula’s true origins but Bram Stoker’s—and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them.

It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here…

A sickly child, Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents’ Dublin home, tended to by his caretaker, a young woman named Ellen Crone. When a string of strange deaths occur in a nearby town, Bram and his sister Matilda detect a pattern of bizarre behavior by Ellen—a mystery that deepens chillingly until Ellen vanishes suddenly from their lives. Years later, Matilda returns from studying in Paris to tell Bram the news that she has seen Ellen—and that the nightmare they’ve thought long ended is only beginning.

“Not only influenced by its predecessor, Dracul also shows a knowledge of modern horror and isn’t afraid to show the gorier aspects of the vampire myth.”—This Is Horror

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