Renfield: Slave of Dracula - Hardcover

Hambly, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0425211681 ISBN 13: 9780425211687

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover, 2006

Synopsis

A fresh take on Bram Stoker's Dracula focuses on the obsessive devotion of Renfield to his vampire master, embarking on a personal mission to hunt down Van Helsing and his companions that sets the stage for the ultimate confrontation between the living and the undead and takes him from Dracula's castle into the horrific darkness of his own mind.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Hambly is a full-time writer.

From Booklist:

Hambly has retold Bram Stoker's Dracula in the voice of a minor character, Renfield, the madman who becomes the vampire's slave-agent in England. In Stoker's original, Renfield is a harbinger, extremely strong and violent, given to an unnatural diet of flies. When Dracula occupies the estate next to the asylum in which he is confined, Renfield attempts several escapes, claiming that his master is calling him. Hambly creates a past for this possessed man via his diaries and letters to his wife and gives him occasional lucid moments. When Dracula imposes himself on Renfield's deteriorated mind, he, bound to an active purpose, becomes yet more lucid. When Dracula orders him to kill Van Helsing, he isn't strong enough to refuse, but on the journey from London to Transylvania, he develops the strength to resist the count, find allies, and eventually retrace his journey back from lunacy to sanity. Hambly superbly weaves Stoker's plot and style with her own, producing one of the best recent vampire yarns. Frieda Murray
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About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0425211681
• ISBN 13: 9780425211687
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320