Dracula the Un-Dead
by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt (HarperCollins, 2009)
Even if there were some merit in two first-time novelists having repudiated Bram Stoker’s original so as to reassert by proxy his control over Dracula lore, this ‘official’ sequel’s horrific, penny dreadful prose situates it a long way from classic gothic literature.
Stoker’s Manuscript
by Royce Prouty (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013)
A grounded, convincing first-person narrative with authentic vampiric element (sorely missed in recent years) and Romania at last given her literary and historical due. Prouty’s debut novel could hardly be more Stoker-ish if Bram himself were undead and moving with the times.