Peter Ackroyd's The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (ACKROYD)
When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.
Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt's Dracula the Un-Dead (STOKER)
At last!!--the sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, written by h
is direct descendant and a Dracula historian.Bram Stoker's Dracula is the prototypical horror novel, an inspiration for the world's fascination with vampires.
Dracula The Un-Dead is a bone-chilling sequel based on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition. Dracula The Un-Dead begins in 1912, twenty-five years after Dracula 'crumbled into dust.'
'Energetically paced and packed with outrageously entertaining action, this supernatural thriller is a well-needed shot of fresh blood for the Dracula mythos.'
--Publisher's Weekly
'The authors (Stoker is a descendant of Bram, and Holt is a noted Dracula historian)skillfully explore the nature of evil while weaving together several complex plotlines throughout this mesmerizing story. Readers who enjoy dark fantasy with fast-paced action will plow through this book, not wanting to stop.'
--Library Journal
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