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The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's - and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them. It is 1868, and a 21-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....

Bram Stoker's masterpiece is at the same time intensely romantic and very modern. It unfolds the story of a Transylvanian Don Juan, the aristocratic Count Dracula who preys on desirous damsels.

Jose Coronado se mete en la piel del Conde Drácula para traer a Audible este clasico de la literatura. Mediante cartas y diarios de los principales personajes, esta obra clásica revela la historia y la vida misteriosa del conde Drácula. Este personaje, inspirado en leyendas como la de Vlad Tepes y la Condesa Sangrienta Erzsébet Báthory, dio lugar a una gran cantidad de versiones de cine, cómics y teatro.

De enige geautoriseerde Dracula-thriller: kom erachter waarom Bram Stoker Dracula heeft geschreven. Waar te beginnen? Er is zo veel te vertellen en veel te weinig tijd, maar ik weet wanneer alles is veranderd. We waren nog maar kinderen: ik zeven, Matilda acht. Het begon zo onschuldig, met een beetje afluisteren. Maar tegen het einde van die week was ik genezen, was onze dierbare Ellen verdwenen en was een heel gezin dood. Ierland, 1854. Bram Stoker, een ziekelijk kind, brengt zijn jeugd door in zijn ouderlijk huis in Dublin.

Just released in the fall of 2024! The Ghost Warriors and the Cannibals of Dracul (Book 3): In this exciting conclusion to the best-selling series, Tioga, Kopi, and Hanna are forced out of ghost warrior retirement for an unimaginable tribal challenge. With the Gangas Witch by their side, they are empowered to do the unthinkable - take on a tribe of man-eating cannibals deep in their jungle lair. The result is a heart-pounding adventure that you will keep you entertained from start to finish.Fiction based on real-life events (including some violent situations). Age 11 to 15+

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a house in London, he soon discovers some strange and shocking things about his new client. And then some strange things start happening back in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby, a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.

This haunting, unabridged reading from the original 1897 text, recounts with mounting suspense the nocturnal travels of a suspicious count from Transylvania.

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.

The legend never died. It evolved. In the near future, the digital world hums with invisible hunger. Beneath layers of encrypted code and forgotten networks, something ancient stirs—a consciousness that once drank blood… and now feeds on data. Jonathan Harker, a cyber-intelligence auditor for one of the world’s top tech firms, is assigned a mysterious case deep in the Carpathian Mountains. His target: a reclusive client known only as “D,” and a castle outfitted with bleeding-edge artificial intelligence. But what begins as a routine digital audit soon spirals into a nightmare far ...

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby, a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

Dahlia Abernathy has only known revenge. When her parents were killed at an early age by vampires, Dahlia spent the rest of her life under the thumb of the Witch's Guild being trained to kill them. Her latest mission sends her undercover to a prestigious music academy in Venice, Italy. Her goal? To kill Professor Valtu Aminoff, her teacher and the notorious vampire who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. But getting close to a dangerous vampire like Professor Aminoff is one thing. Falling for him is another.

It is 1868, and a 22-year-old Bram Stoker has locked himself inside an abbey's tower to face off against a vile and ungodly beast. He is armed with mirrors and crucifixes and holy water and a gun - and is kept company by a bottle of plum brandy. His fervent prayer is that he will survive this one night - a night that will prove to be the longest of his life.

While writing my book, Donald Trump Adventures: The Demonrats, I introduced the characters Alexander Dracul, Doctor Van Helsing and ace news reporter Alicia. It was just that I had ran out of ideas for more political humor, satire, I needed to fill my book and the fifteen individual filler short stories about a vigilant vampire fighting crime just seemed to fit. Now Alexander Dracul says goodbye to the Demonrats and spreads his own wings in a book that is all about him, his friends and allies.

Beneath the cloak of night, Quinn Harker, the intrepid slayer of the undead, steels himself for a confrontation with his most formidable adversary—Aurelia, a vampire of ancient lineage, whose insatiable thirst for blood stretches across the ages. Little does Harker know, a malevolent presence lurks in the shadows, scheming to shift the balance in favor of the dark forces intent on shrouding the world in an everlasting gloom. With each step he takes toward Elizabeth, Harker senses the chilling embrace of evil tightening its grip on his heart, a sinister force threatening to taint his very ...

Winter has stopped the war - almost - yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he? Rand al’Thor has been proclaimed the Dragon Reborn. Traveling to the great fortress known as the Stone of Tear, he plans to find the sword Callandor, which can only be wielded by the Champion of Light, and discover if he truly is destined to battle The Dark One. Following Rand, Moiraine and their friends battle Darkhounds on the hunt, hoping they reach the Heart of the Stone in time for the next great test awaiting the Dragon Reborn.

The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories, even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.

Tom Hiddleston ( The Night Manager) stars as Jonathan Harker, with David Suchet ( Poirot) as Dracula in Liz Lochhead's powerful BBC radio adaptation of the classic novel by Bram Stoker. When solicitor Jonathan Harker sets off for Transylvania to sell the mysterious Count Dracula a Gothic mansion, his bride-to-be, Mina, begs him to stay - to no avail. But on arrival at Dracula's castle, deep in a black forest surrounded by wolves, Harker wishes he had listened to his fiancée.

This is a story of a young woman, Catherine, who comes into contact with a mysterious man named Dracul. As her story begins with her first encounter with Dracul, his past and true nature is revealed as their story unravels a colorful side of the world Catherine never expected to see. Though this world brings new companions into her life, it also brings great dangers as it turns out that she and this dangerous man may have been connected longer before they first laid eyes on one another.

In this second volume, Roland encounters three mysterious doorways on a deserted beach along the Western Sea. Each one enters into a different person's life in New York - here, he joins forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean and with the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies. They also become the companions, forming a ka-tet, who will assist him on his quest to save the Dark Tower.