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Dracul / Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Black Swan, 2019.Description: 578 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781784164423 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3619.T645
Summary: It is 1868, and a 22-year-old Bram Stoker has locked himself inside an abbey's tower to face off against a vile and ungodly beast. He is armed with mirrors and crucifixes and holy water and a gun - and is kept company by a bottle of plum brandy. His fervent prayer is that he will survive this one night - a night that will prove to be the longest of his life. Desperate to leave a record of what he has witnessed, the young man scribbles out the events that brought him to this point - and tells an extraordinary tale of childhood illness, a mysterious nanny, and stories once thought to be fables now proven true. A riveting, heart-stoppingly scary novel of Gothic suspense, 'Dracul' reveals not only the true origins of Dracula himself, but also of his creator, Bram Stoker - and of the elusive, enigmatic woman who connects them.
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R16889A0499

Originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2018.

It is 1868, and a 22-year-old Bram Stoker has locked himself inside an abbey's tower to face off against a vile and ungodly beast. He is armed with mirrors and crucifixes and holy water and a gun - and is kept company by a bottle of plum brandy. His fervent prayer is that he will survive this one night - a night that will prove to be the longest of his life. Desperate to leave a record of what he has witnessed, the young man scribbles out the events that brought him to this point - and tells an extraordinary tale of childhood illness, a mysterious nanny, and stories once thought to be fables now proven true. A riveting, heart-stoppingly scary novel of Gothic suspense, 'Dracul' reveals not only the true origins of Dracula himself, but also of his creator, Bram Stoker - and of the elusive, enigmatic woman who connects them.

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