Draculas

A Novel of Terror

By: F. Paul Wilson, Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn, Jeff Strand, J. A. Konrath

Narrated by: Eric Dawe

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

Mortimer Moorecook, retired Wall Street raider, avid collector, is losing his fight against cancer. With weeks to live, a package arrives at the door of his hillside mansion—an artifact he paid millions for…a hominoid skull with elongated teeth, discovered in a farmer's field in the Romanian countryside. With Shanna, his beautiful research assistant looking on, he sinks the skull's razor sharp fangs into his neck, and immediately goes into convulsions.

A rural hospital. A slow night in the ER. Until Moorecook arrives strapped to a gurney, where he promptly codes and dies.

Four well-known horror authors pool their penchants for scares and thrills, and tackle one of the greatest of all legends, with each writer creating a unique character and following them through a vampire outbreak in a secluded hospital.

The goal was simple: write the most intense novel they possibly could. Which they did. A Word of Warning: Within this story, you will find no black capes, no satin-lined coffins, no brooding heartthrobs who want to talk about your feelings. Forget sunlight and stakes. Throw out your garlic and your crosses. This is the Anti-Twilight.

©2010 Jeff Strand, F. Paul Wilson, Jack Kilborn, Blake Crouch, J.A. Konrath (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

This is a full on action story outside the box

Would you listen to Draculas again? Why?

Yes,but much later it leaves an impression

Who was your favorite character and why?

Deputy dog and the lumber jack they are good people weird but good hearted

What does Eric Dawe bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Mr Dawe does a great job and keeps the story alive and moving at a very fast pace

If you could rename Draculas, what would you call it?

No that is a great name for what else would you call it or them

Any additional comments?

A full speed ahead no hands barred fight to survive the night

THIS HAD A GUN SHOW BEAT TO SHIT

HE WAS GOING TO NEED A BIGGER GUN
A CLOWN ZOMBIE MAKING BALLOON ANIMALS OUT OF INTESTINES
PERHAPS HE COULDN'T SPELL ARTILLERY SPRAY, BUT HE COULD AS SURE AS SHIT MAKE IT HAPPEN.
WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
I AM GOING TO GET ERNIE'S HEAD, I AIN'T LEAVING HIS GOD DAMN HEAD OUT THERE.
METALLICA ELEVATOR MUSIC
Throw the plot out the window, this is all about the action. It is non stop. If you just want to hear about gross, gory stuff and not complicate it with a plot, than this is your book.

Bait & Switch to the max!!

They truly used the bait & switch tactic to lure readers. I knew it would be a gore fest based on the writers; no one expects a romance movie from Torintono or Rodriguez, however I was honestly stunned by the change of genre with this book
It was a damn comedy!! Albeit dark comedy but at no time was there even a hint of a frightful scene. Sure it would keep you up at nights but it would be from either laughing or rolling your eyes not from fear or chills.
Perhaps it was the narrator who lent a more comedic twist to the story, I could see(metaphorically) how if some passages were read differently the scene would be eerie as opposed to ridiculous. However when one is so distracted by the funny thoughts streaming through one mans mind as he is tearing out the throat of another with pliers well that just reveals no narrator could make this book sound scary.
If you want a good laugh and aren't squeamish then I suggest you go for it

AWESOME

I loved this book! It was brutal but great. I am wondering about a follow up book. I tried to locate it but did not find. Please let me know about the second book to this series.

very entertaining thrill-ride!

it is a great audiobook. I highly recommend it to all horror fans everywhere. A Non-Stop Thrill Ride from beginning to end.

Freakin' Awesome!

So much fun! I didn't think it was overly gorey. Just the right amount of gore. I typically use audio books to get to sleep, but not this one. I wanted to stay awake to see what happened next! Some of the characters were a bit shallow, but the others and the action were able to keep them afloat. I hope there's another book on the way!

Could have been so much better.

Let me start by saying that this book was NOT a waste of my time. It entertained me and kept my attention on a long drive, and sometimes that's as much as you can ask from a book. It's action-packed from the start, with some fun new twists on the vampire legend.
However, the book could have been so much better. The writing is uneven at times, and the protagonists are two-dimensional, largely-unlikable characters.
Still, for fans of vampire (not Twilight or Anne Rice vampire) or zombie fiction, this book is a diverting romp.

Hugely disappointing

I'm often on the look-out for a good horror novel to read, and when I saw this, with a couple of author names I recognized, I thought this would be a good read and satisfy my hunger for something dark.

But I was wrong.

The horror genre can come in different forms and my least favorite is one that relies on a lot of blood and sinew and human body parts being torn or ripped off and described in explicit detail.  It's horrific but the effect is numbing after a little bit.  How many times can you describe blood or the sound of a limb being torn off, or the appearance of everything under a person's skin, now exposed, and still make it interesting?  This is nothing more than splatterpunk at its extreme and I would agree with Robert Bloch who said of the genre, "there is a distinction to be made between that which inspires terror and that which inspires nausea".

To make matters even worse, from a story-telling perspective, the entire book takes place in one setting (a hospital) over the course of a few hours.  How do you build tension and terror when it's essentially the same moment, repeated over and over?  You don't.

Briefly, a collector of odd antiquities is in a rural hospital, losing his battle with cancer.  A package arrives ... a skull he's been looking forward to owning.  The skull has an unusual appearance ... it is a human skull but has sharp fangs. When it slips and the fangs sink into his skin, a transformation begins.  He has become infected with something that now changes him. His cancer seems to abate, but he now has a powerful hunger for blood.  His teeth fall out and new teeth, fangs like those on the skull quickly grow in.  He uses them to bite into the nearest person. They lose their teeth and new ones grow in, and the hospital becomes a warzone of those who hunger for human blood, and those who are trying to keep theirs inside their bodies.

I don't mind changing up the 'rules' that have been previously established for certain supernatural creatures - and the authors here warn us that these vampires aren't going to be like any we've read about before - but if you're going to change the rules, <em>change</em> them!  Don't just swap them!  These 'draculas' (the term given them by other characters in the book) are nothing more than common 'zombies' except instead of hungering for brains, they hunger for blood.  They have the same 'keep on coming' traits that most zombies in modern literature posses. Slash them, disembowel them, rend them limb from limb and the part with their fangs will keep coming.  I was really disappointed that this wasn't really something new and instead the authors just changed one creature for another.

This was a huge disappointment all around.

its not bad. more of an action book

it was very entertaining. guns, chainsaws and vamps whats not to like. i wanted more suspense but what it lacked there it made it up in action.

Draculas is Effing Fantastic!

I'm a huge J.A Konrath Fan and somehow this book had evaded me. Well I'm glad i finally caught up too it. It's truly one of the best and most fun vampire novels!