A sensual, terrifying, incredibly accomplished first novel, this fascinating prequel to the classic and most popular horror novel of all time, Dracula, focuses on Dracula's great-nephew, who inherits the job of managing his great-uncle's estate...and his appetite. Written in diary form as Dracula is, this compulsively readable book has revelations that will shock and delight readers of the original. More erotic than Anne Rice, Kalogridis is a major new voice in vampire fiction. The first chilling tale in an exciting new trilogy is a rich and terrifying historical novel set fifty years before the opening of Bram Stoker's Dracula. At the castle of Prince Vlad Tsepesh, also known as Dracula, Vald's great-nephew Arkady is honored to care for his beloved though strange great-uncle...until he beings to realize what is expected of him in his new role. It seems that either he provides his great-uncle with unsuspecting victims to satisfy his needs, or Vlad will kill those Arkady loves. He is trapped into becoming party to murder and sadistic torture. And it is in his blood. When Arkady learns that his newborn son is being groomed one day to follow in his footsteps, he knows that he must fight Dracula, even if it means death.
Jeanne Kalogridis is the author of Covenant with the Vampire, Lord of the Vampires, Children of the Vampire, and The Burning Times, among other books.
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Hardback: 9½" x 6¼". Etat : Very Good: Light signs of wear. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Cover Art: Keith Scaife (illustrateur). 1st Edition. © 1994: 1st in the 'Diaries Of The Family Dracul' series of books. 1st edition, 1st printing. Light tanning to text block:- Synopsis:"And I repeat: I do not care. If this be death, then death is sheer joy! For the first time in my stunted, miserable life I am happy. I do not want God. I do not want forgiveness. I want only for him to come again.". In 1845 Arkady Tsepesh, with his heavily pregnant wife Mary, journeys from London to the land of his birth - Transylvania. Now the last of his bloodline, dubbed the Draculs by local peasants, Arkady will take over the management of his Great Uncle Vlad;s estate from his dead father. But the couple have barely been a night beneath Vlad's roof when Mary begins to suspect something dreadfully wrong between the elderly Vlad and Zsuzanna, his crippled young niece. She is right: the abandonment of Vlad's nightly visitations is transforming the girl's hitherto pain-wracked existence into a bewildered ecstasy. And it is transforming Vlad into a much younger man, vigorous, steely, charming and terrifying. And, as by night unprecedented wolf attacks grow more frequent and by day Vlad's grip over their lives becomes more apparent, Mary and Arkady begin to comprehend an appalling truth. They are pawns in a terrible, age-old game, its latest object their unborn child. Yet there is also hope = for in preying on his own blood Vlad had broken an ancient covenant, and in so doing endowed with his powers those whose goodness would oppose his infinite evil. But can the purity of goodness triumph over such a seductive corrupter of souls?:- (original cost £16.99). N° de réf. du vendeur 20.051.00172
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