Dracula Books
If you’re a reader, get your hands on a few Count Dracula books and get ready to be wowed!
Halloween is coming up. You love books about vampires and what better to read than Bram Stoker’s late 1800s’ book, Dracula.
Although quite a bloodthirsty novel that was not popular in his lifetime, it has remained a phenomenal best seller since it became part of English literature. Set in Transylvania, Romania. the accurate descriptions of the country and superstitions have greatly enhanced this book. Stoker may have written 18 other books about bloodsucking vampires but they never caught on like this one did.
Now available in e-book form, you can read books about the monsterous Count Dracula online as well as on paper or on your kindle. Check out the updated versions below.
The Bride of Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta
Brash and beautiful, Milagro De Los Santos is planning a wedding to a handsome plastic surgeon named Oswald Grant. His parents have a strange propensity for fresh blood. They loathe their future daughter-in-law. Her best friend is a member of a secretive Vampire Council and tries to guide the couple through strange vampiric marriage rituals.
Is a hidden enemy trying to keep her from marrying an undead in this sexy and witty romance? Does she become infected? Women love a good mystery. Get ready to spend a cozy evening or two when you buy this spicy fantasy to find out.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Optimized for Kindle)
This is a 100th anniversary edition of Bran Stoker’s Dracula. There are excerpts from materials that he researched and criticisms on how Count Dracula deals with female sexuality, gender inversions and Victorian fears. It is one of the few horror novels honored in the Norton Critical Edition series that includes Frankenstein.
Although the critics say that the bloodsucking Dracula was outrageously cruel, they also say he wasn’t as bad as the prince on which his character was based – Vlad, the Impaler. Vlad impaled all of his enemies and left them to die a slow death. A Papal envoy from Budapest, Hungary wrote that Dracula massacred 40,000 people of all nationalities and ages, including young children. Gabriele Rangone, Bishop of Erlau said that Dracula ordered the murders of 100,000 people. We will never know.
Rated for kids from grade seven and up, this classic fantasy has a ring of believability and adult lovers of horror mysteries will also enjoy this version.
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