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1 online resource |
Summary |
It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here A sickly child, Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents' Dublin home, tended to by his caretaker, a young woman named Ellen Crone. When a string of strange deaths occur in a nearby town, Bram and his sister Matilda detect a pattern of bizarre behavior by Ellen a mystery that deepens chillingly until Ellen vanishes suddenly from their lives. Years later, Matilda returns from studying in Paris to tell Bram the news that she has seen Ellen nd that the nightmare they've thought long ended is only beginning. A riveting novel of gothic suspense, Dracul reveals not only Dracula's true origin, but Bram Stoker's and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 6211 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB). |
Subject |
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 -- Fiction.
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Vampires -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Horror fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Barker, J. D. (Jonathan Dylan), 1971- author.
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Other Form: |
Original 9780735219342 |
ISBN |
9780735219366 (electronic bk) |
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