Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew, Dacre Stoker, and screenwriter, Ian Holt, team up for the sequel to the original Dracula, Dracula The Un-Dead
When Dutton announced the acquisition of Dracula The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt, it became clear that the world was ready for the return of Bram Stoker's Count Dracula. The New York Times declared "Dracula Lives!" and The New York Post's Page Six wrote "Drac is Back!" Simultaneously, hundreds of blogs immediately started posting information on this exciting project. Dracula The Un-Dead is the true sequel to the original classic, bringing Bram's creation back to life for the modern reader. Dacre Stoker, the great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker and Ian Holt, a screenwriter fascinated with Dracula since childhood have delivered an action packed, fast-paced thriller while paying homage to Bram's original characters, and absolute attention to historical accuracy. The authors used Bram's own notes for Dracula including unrealized plot threads and characters, and relying on the insight of the Stoker family members to explore Bram's motivations in writing of this tale, Dracula The Un-Dead.
Dracula The Un-Dead picks up the story of all the surviving characters after the events of Bram's Dracula, beginning in 1912, twenty-five years after Dracula "crumbled into dust." Although they rid the world of "evil" decades ago, the surviving characters have never truly recovered. Jonathan and Mina Harker have their relationship strained to the breaking point. Arthur Holmwood is a bitter man, Ven Helsing is waiting for death, and the once brilliant Dr. Seward is a drug-addicted madman. When Quincey Harker, the son of Jonathan and Mina finds himself on the set of Dracula, a play being directed by Bram Stoker himself, he begins to realize that his parents and their friends have kept many terrifying secrets. As the band of heroes begin to die one by one, Quincey is thrown into the dark past of his parents and is forced to question everything he has ever trusted to be true. Who is behind these attacks? Is Dracula truly the "undead"? Or is there another, far more sinister force at work seeking ultimate revenge?
Dracula The Un-Dead is the sequel that Stoker's legions of fans have been waiting over a hundred years for…the return of the real Dracula.
Read an excerpt from Dracula The Un-Dead:
Prologue
Letter from Mina Harker to her son, Quincey Harker, Esq.
(To be opened upon the sudden or unnatural death of Wilhelmina Harker)
9th March 1912
Dear Quincey,
My dear son, all your life you have suspected that there have been
secrets between us. I fear that the time has come to reveal the truth to
you. To deny it any longer would put both your life and your immortal
soul in jeopardy.
Your dear father and I chose to keep the secrets of our past from you
in order to shield you from the darkness that shrouds this world. We had
hoped to allow you a childhood free from the fears that have haunted us
all our adult lives. As you grew into the promising young man you are
today, we chose not to tell you what we knew lest you think us mad.
Forgive us. If you are reading this letter now, then the evil we so desperately
and perhaps wrongly sought to shield you from has returned. And
now you, like your parents before you, are in grave danger.
In the year 1888, when your father and I were still young, we learned
that evil lurks in the shadows of our world, waiting to prey upon the
unbelieving and the unprepared.
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