After all these years, a Dracula sequel
By Dave
October 7th, 2008 | Leave a comment
One hundred eleven years after the original novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, the novelist’s family is planning to publish a sequel.
Dacre Stoker, Bram Stoker’s great-grandnephew, is drawing on the author’s handwritten notes from more than a century ago to write Dracula: The Un-Dead.
The sequel is set in 1912 London, a quarter century after Van Helsing and his merry band of vampire-killers had done in Dracula, when odd things start happening.
Unlike the original, which told the story from several points of view (and wasn’t exactly a breezy read), the sequel will have a more direct storytelling approach, reports the Guardian.
“Dacre Stoker, who formerly coached the Canadian Olympic Pentathlon team and now lives in the U.S., is writing the novel with Dracula historian Ian Holt, a screenwriter and member of The Transylvanian Society of Dracula. The Un-Dead is the first Dracula story to be fully authorized by the Stoker family since the 1931 film starring Bela Lugosi.”
The book is expected to be available in October 2009, just in time for Halloween.
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