Download or read book Dracula s Secret written by Linda Mercury and published by Linda Mercury. This book was released on 2012 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHE HUNGERS FOR HIS LIGHT She calls herself Valerie Tate. One of the few vampires left on earth, as beautiful as she is powerful, Valerie has resisted her craving for human blood for years, just as she once hid her true gender. But the night she lays eyes on the most enticing man she's ever seen, her appetite can no longer be denied. He radiates goodness and light-and searing sexual energy. Valerie must have him. Taste him. Consume him. For he is temptation-and he is her destiny. HE BURNS FOR HER DARKNESS Lance Soleil is a rugged war veteran who runs a homeless shelter in Portland. At first gaze, he knows what Valerie is-and wants her even more. But when he welcomes a pack of werewolves into his shelter, he attracts the attention of Valerie's oldest rival-her bloodthirsty brother, Radu, who hopes to become the first vampire President of the United States. Valerie knows Radu has a hidden agenda, and with Lance's help she is determined to stop his unholy rise to power. But first, she must risk their growing love by fully revealing herself-as th the one and only Dracula.

Download or read book The Dracula Secrets written by Neil R Storey and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first publication of Dracula in 1897, there have been suggestions that the book's protagonist is more closely associated with Jack the Ripper than a Transylvanian count. In The Dracula Secrets, historian Neil R. Storey undertakes an in-depth investigation of the sources used by Stoker during the writing of his seminal masterpiece. Painting an evocative portrait of Stoker, his influences, his friends and the London he frequented in the late nineteenth century, Storey explores how Stoker created Dracula out of the climate of fear that was created by the Whitechapel murders in 1888. Indeed he asks, did Stoker know Jack the Ripper personally and hide the clues to this terrible knowledge in his book? Having gained unprecedented access to the unique archive of one of Stoker's most respected friends and the dedicatee of Dracula, Storey sheds new light on both Stoker and Dracula, and reveals startling new links between Stoker's creation and the most infamous serial killer of all time.

Download or read book Dracula My Love written by Syrie James and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Syrie James (The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen) offers readers a breathtaking new perspective on Bram Stoker’s classic tale of the king of the vampires with Dracula, My Love. In these “Secret Journals of Mina Harker,” the object of Dracula’s desire relates for the very first time the shocking story of her scandalous seduction and sexual rebirth. This is not the chaste vampire romance of Twilight—Dracula, My Love celebrates a passionate obsession in all its hot and sensuous glory.

Download or read book Dracula s Secret written by Linda Mercury and published by Blood Wings. This book was released on 2023-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHE HUNGERS FOR HIS LIGHT She calls herself Valerie Tate. One of the few vampires left on earth, as beautiful as she is powerful, Valerie has resisted her craving for human blood for years, just as she once hid her true gender. But the night she lays eyes on the most enticing man she's ever seen, her appetite can no longer be denied. He radiates goodness and light-and searing sexual energy. Valerie must have him. Taste him. Consume him. For he is temptation-and he is her destiny . . . HE BURNS FOR HER DARKNESS Lance Soleil is a rugged war veteran who runs a homeless shelter in Portland. At first gaze, he knows what Valerie is-and wants her even more. But when he welcomes a pack of werewolves into his shelter, he attracts the attention of Valerie's oldest rival-her bloodthirsty brother, Radu, who hopes to become the first vampire President of the United States. Valerie knows Radu has a hidden agenda, and with Lance's help she is determined to stop his unholy rise to power. But first, she must risk their growing love by fully revealing herself-as the one and only Dracula . . .

Download or read book The Secret Life of Laszlo Count Dracula written by Roderick Anscombe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of Dracula, beginning when he is a medical student in Paris. A fellow-Hungarian introduces him to debauchery and Dracula gets himself a mistress who is a patient at the mental hospital where he works. In a fit of jealousy he cuts her throat and returns to Hungary to pursue his depraved life style, killing and ravishing.

Download or read book Anno Dracula 3 written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst London prepares to celebrate Prince Dracula’s 10th anniversary, his secret police force, The Grey Men are purging the streets of any and all political malcontents and miscreants, including the Council of Seven Days – an anarchist cell. Meanwhile, vampiric journalist Kate Reed and the surviving members of the Council are now running for the lives following a police raid on their headquarters and are unaware that the Grey Men have secreted one of their own among their dwindling membership. Moreover, Kate’s friend, Penny Churchward – who has been summoned to the Tower of London to be appointed overseer of the Jubilee celebrations, has stumbled into the presence of an ancient, unbelievably-evil, undead vampire legend that rumor has it frightens even Prince Dracula himself…

Download or read book Dracula s Desires written by Linda Mercury and published by eKensington . This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing herself as the Dracula of legend, much less a woman, should have been Valerie Tate's greatest challenge. But with her longing for blood quenched by the one man she couldn't resist, Valerie now finds herself in an impossible circumstance. . . Out Of The Shadows. . . It's a fact that vampires do not get pregnant. But Valerie is definitely pregnant. Worse, six months ago her lover, Lance Soleil, abandoned her. Determined to find answers, Valerie goes on a quest--one that leads her to Lance's childhood friend, John Janté, a man with whom she shares a strong bond--and an intense lust. But when John is kidnapped, Valerie's attempt to rescue him uncovers more than she bargained for. . . Into The Fire. . . Scouring parallel realms and pocket dimensions, Valerie soon finds that Lance has regained Paradise as Angel of the Lost. . .John is hostage in a bizarre world that resembles Victorian London. . .and most shocking of all, Valerie's greatest love may be within her reach once more. For the soul of Dracula's dead wife, Ilona, is trapped within John's captor, a mad woman robbed of her humanity and manipulated by a conspiracy of Fallen Angels. Now, torn between past and present loves, Valerie must contend with emotions that threaten to break her. And in a desperate show-down, the reunited triad of a vampire, an angel, and a human, must face their deepest fears--with the future of an unborn angel-to-be in the balance. . . Before becoming an author, Linda Mercury had varied careers, including librarian, art model, and professional clown. She holds advanced degrees in both History and Library/Information Science. She lives in Oregon with her husband.

Download or read book The Mystery at Dracula s Castle Transylvania Romania written by Carole Marsh and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mimi reads an ad and thinks, Hmm, would this make a great vacation home for a mystery writing grandmother and her family and friends. Soon, Christina and Grant are whisked off aboard the Mystery Girl airplane with Mimi and Papa to Transylvania, Romania where they meet up with a strange real estate agent, tour the famous castle, meet some odd new kid friends, learn about vampires, and meet up with Count dracula himself More about the Around the World in 80 Mysteries series: Travel around the world with Christina and Grant as they visit famous places in 80 countries. Exciting adventures include history, geography, culture, and more of each country they visit. A fun way to learn about fascinating places around the world Each book includes a map, inline glossary definitions, and lots more Kids can visit the www.carolemarshmysteries.com website to: Join the Carole Marsh Mysteries Fan Club Write a letter to Christina, Grant, Mimi, or Papa Cast their vote for where the next mystery should take place Find fascinating facts about the countries where the mysteries take place Track their reading on an international map Take the Fact or Fiction online quiz Play the Around-the-World Scavenger Hunt computer game Find out where The Mystery Girl is flying next And more Read all the books in any order

Download or read book Who Is Dracula s Father written by Jon Sutherland and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published in 1897 – 120 years ago – Irish author Bram Stoker's Dracula was ranked by the Daily Mail above work by Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as Wuthering Heights. Yet it never made Stoker any money. Since 1931's film Nosferatu the Vampire, however, it has never been out of print and is legendary among fans of the dark, macabre and mysterious ... Critic John Sutherland, a Dracula fan since childhood – and author of the literary puzzle classics Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Can Jane Eyre be Happy? explores the enigmas and puzzles of this towering giant of gothic novels, such as: Who was Dracula's father? Why does the Count come to England? Does the Count actually give Jonathan a 'love bite'? Why does every country we know of have a vampire legend? And finally – how long is it before we're all vampires? The book also includes 'Dracula Digested' by John Crace, author of the Guardian's Digested Reads column.

Download or read book True Story of Dracula written by Martin Kukk-Grønbjerg and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Story of Dracula is a horror book. It is written as if Dracula had existed. So it starts with Vlad III, from his early childhood, and tries to give him a character one can relate to, until the moment he was killed and how he was transformed into Dracula. How Dracula was and acted among his fellow humans. Not to forget how he managed to stay hidden for all those years. As one can see in the personified characteristics, I have also built up the character of Dracula, giving him a whole lot more depth. I have also built on the vampires whom Dracula makes and have given them a lot more of a persona as well. I have chosen to give one other character in the book more detail. Then we begin with the main plot of the book, a class from California traveling to Romania on a research trip. As they are to discover, it turns from a research trip to a getaway trip. Here, I have also found it necessary to give each student that goes on the trip a character that goes into depth, not only so we can get an understanding of the person, but also to assist me in writing. An example would be, given these characteristics, what would most likely happen? I have personified each characteristic such as mine, where after each book, it has hopefully increased the number of characters it goes to depth with. It does not only help you think forward but also backward. An example would be, her mother is interesting; she may have had an affair, which we can include in a new book. The other alternative could be that this character is so rich. Maybe we can focus on highlighting them more or perhaps tell his side of the story.

Download or read book Strange Swinging Sixties Supers Dracula written by Mini Komix and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Swinging Sixties Supers resurrects Dracula, but as a superhero! This modern day descendant of the original Count is a scientist who makes a serum that gives him the power to change into a bat, along with enhanced strength, senses, and the ability to control bats. He uses his new powers to stop the evil Boris Eval from plunging the world into nuclear war. After fleeing Transylvania, a cruise turns into a mission to confront Admiral Maltemps from terrorizing the globe with zeppelins with the power to dominate the weather. Finally arriving in America, Dracula saves his shipmate B.B. from dying in an accident which exposes his secret identity to her. She pays him back by giving him an abandoned bunker to use as his base, but a run in with the supervillain Piper makes her more civil minded, and uses Dracula's formula to join him as the bodacious batgirl, Fleeta! This dynamic duo set out to fight the evils of the world in this campy comic collection! Cover art by James Lyle and Joel Merritt. 100 Big Pages!

Download or read book Anno Dracula 4 written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampiric journalist Kate Reed is a member of a secret cabal of anarchists called the Council of the Seven Days who have sworn to overthrow the despotic rule of the Prince Regent, Count Dracula. However when Kate learns of Council's plot to bomb Dracula's planned Tin Jubilee celebrations and the subsequent backlash that action would unleash she is forced to make a decision. One that could make her the enemy of not only the Council, the State but also her best friend, Penelope Churchwood, the mastermind behind the celebration. But with the clock ticking, Kate must act before it is too late...

Download or read book Dracula in Visual Media written by John Edgar Browning and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the world's most famous vampire, with more than 700 citations of domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animated works, and video games, as well as nearly a thousand comic books and stage adaptations. While they vary in length, significance, quality, genre, moral character, country, and format, each of the cited works adopts some form of Bram Stoker's original creation, and Dracula himself, or a recognizable vampiric semblance of Dracula, appears in each. The book includes contributions from Dacre Stoker, David J. Skal, Laura Helen Marks, Dodd Alley, Mitch Frye, Ian Holt, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, and J. Gordon Melton.

Download or read book Anno Dracula The Bloody Red Baron written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Anno Dracula: "Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious." - Neil Gaiman "Politics, horror, and romance are woven together in this brilliantly imagined and realized novel. Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail is spellbinding." - Time Out “Stephen King assumes we hate vampires; Anne Rice makes it safe to love them, because they hate themselves. Kim Newman suspects that most of us live with them… Anno Dracula is the definitive account of that post-modern species, the self-obsessed undead.” - New York Times “Anno Dracula will leave you breathless... one of the most creative novels of the year.” - Seattle Times “Powerful... compelling entertainment... a fiendishly clever banquet of dark treats.” - San Francisco Chronicle 'A ripping yarn, an adventure romp of the best blood, and a satisfying… read' - Washington Post Book World "The most comprehensive, brilliant, dazzlingly audacious vampire novel to date. 'Ultimate' seems an apt description... Anno Dracula is at once playful, horrific, intelligent, and revelatory." - Locus "A marvelous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror, and alternative history. Not to be missed." - The Independent "Once you start reading this Victorian-era thriller, you will not be satiated until you reach the end." - Ain't It Cool "Anno Dracula is the smart, hip Year Zero of the vampire genre's ongoing revolution." - Paul McAuley "Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count." - Christopher Fowler "The most interesting take on the Dracula story... to date. Recommending this one to all those that love Dracula and historical fiction!" - RexRobotReviews -- WAR IS HELL... It is 1918 and Graf von Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies ofGermany and Austria-Hungary. The War of the Great Powers in Europeis also a war between the living and the undead. Caught up in the conflict, Charles Beauregard, an old enemy of Dracula, his protegé Edwin Winthrop,and intrepid vampire reporter Kate Reed go head-to-head with the lethal vampire flying machine that is the Bloody Red Baron... In the brand-new novella Vampire Romance, Geneviève Dieudonné,newly returned to England, infiltrates a singular vampire gathering in the service of the Diogenes Club. A brand-new edition, with additional novella, of the critically acclaimed, bestselling sequel to Anno Dracula. Written by popular novelist and movie critic Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Barontakes the story into the 20th century.

Download or read book Anno Dracula 5 written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed for an attempt to blow up Dracula’s Tin Jubilee river procession, Kate Reed is now running for her undead life, pursued by Dracula’s secret police force. Meanwhile, the Lord of Strange Deaths and his cohorts have used the commotion to commit the ‘crime of the Century’. Now Kate Reed, Irman Vep and Fah Lo Suee must team up for one final battle with the true architect of the terrorist plot before facing the ultimate evil of COUNT DRACULA himself...

Download or read book Dracula s Guest and Other Weird Stories written by Bram Stoker and published by Binker North. This book was released on 1914 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death. The same collection has been issued under short titles including simply Dracula's Guest. Meanwhile, collections published under Dracula's Guest and longer titles contain different selections of stories. Contents: Dracula's guest -- The judge's house -- The squaw -- The secret of the growing gold -- The gipsy prophecy -- The coming of Abel Behenna -- The burial of the rats -- A dream of red hands -- Crooken sands.

Download or read book The Dracula Secrets written by Neil Storey and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the evidence for links between Dracula and Jack the Ripper, containing original research and previously unpublished and rare materials/illustrations—as well as an evocative exploration of the theater and esoteric scene in 1880s LondonSince its publication in 1897, there have been suggestions that the fictional exploits of Dracula were more closely associated with Jack the Ripper than a Transylvanian Count. Historian Neil Storey provides the first British-based investigation of the sources used by Stoker and paints an evocative portrait of Stoker, his influences, friends, and the London he knew in the late 19th century. Among Stoker's group of friends, however, were dark shadows. Storey explores how Stoker created Dracula out of the climate of fear that surrounded the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888. Add to this potent combination the notion that Stoker may have known Jack the Ripper personally and hidden the clues to this terrible knowledge in his book. The premise is seductive and connects some of the giants of stage and literature of late Victorian Britain. Having gained unprecedented access to the unique archive of one of Stoker's most respected friends and the dedicatee of Dracula, Storey sheds new light on both Stoker and Dracula, and reveals startling new insights into the links between Stoker's creation and the most infamous murderer of all time.