The Mammoth Book of Dracula (Mammoth Books) - Softcover

Jones, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786704284 ISBN 13: 9780786704286

Publisher: Running Press, 1997

Synopsis

A collection of old and new Dracula yarns includes unpublished stories by Graham Masterton and Michael Marshall Smith, along with a long-lost version of Bram Stoker's classic tale, published for the first time since 1897. Original.

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Review:

With his 500-year lifetime so far, and centuries yet ahead, the character of Dracula has an ever-unfolding biography, to which this 100th-anniversary tribute contributes 33 stories (only 6 of which have been previously published). Dracula visits, in these pages, such locales as the Côte d'Azur, the wilds of Oregon, the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler, communist Eastern Europe, Rome at the dawn of the 21st century (a chilling tale in which he is forced to imitate the Messiah), and the ruins of post-apocalyptic New Jersey. He encounters Bettie Page, Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, Lou Reed, and Francis Ford Coppola (with the entire cast and crew of Apocalypse Now, in a hilarious spoof). The authors include such contemporary masters as Kim Newman, Nicholas Royle, Terry Lamsley, Joel Lane, Brian Stableford, and Ramsey Campbell. The book also has a foreword by Bram Stoker's great-nephew, and includes the never-before-published prologue to Stoker's theatrical version of Dracula.

About the Author:

Stephen Jones is one of Britain's most acclaimed horror anthologists, and winner of three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards, and three International Horror Guild Awards. His other anthologies include Zombie Apocalypse!, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men. He lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Running Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0786704284
• ISBN 13: 9780786704286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 520