Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #700945 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

My 100-word book review
Dracula the Undead is an excellent and well-written sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula and is mostly congruent with the original. Atmospheric scene-setting and sympathetic rounded characters add a welcome degree of depth to the Dracula story. Written in the epistolary style, as was Stoker's original tale, the novel nevertheless comes across as a little too modern at times, and has a few unconvincing moments but otherwise remains firmly in character. I found that the best and creepiest scenes were early on, in the Scholomance, the undead academy deep under the Carpathians. Read these if you dare, without succumbing to claustrophobia...

A worthy sequel
This book is, without doubt, the definitive sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula. It is written in the same format as the original, taking the form of diary entries and the like so continuity from the original is maintained. Warrington's story takes place seven years after the death of Dracula with a pilgrimage to Transylvania by the survivors, but things don't go quite to plan on their return to England.

There is so much that I could write about this book but I really don't want to spoil it for anyone. I didn't give it 5 stars because I wasn't totally happy with the ending, but that's just my opinion. Read the book and judge for yourself.

Dracula isn't dead a book to get your teeth in to
I've got to admit when I first bought the book I was a bit dubious after all nothing could be better than the original novel and the vast majority of the sequel's I've read have been disappointing to say the least. I had previously read one of Freda's fantasy books and had not really been impressed. However, I was surprised by the fact that the author had kept the novel true to the original creating a worthy and enjoyable sequel. The atmosphere is true to that of the oiginal and the characters are believable with human fallibles. This is definitely a keeper for me.