I read this one for the first time as a teenager.It totally bowled me over, and held my fascination.It was such an evocative and lovely Victorian tale, and I properly read in my bed with the wind howling outside. Ah. The memories! I found the movies and fell in love with the Hammer Horror and th...
Read kindle/Audible versions through whispersync/immersion reading I was surprised how much of this book I remembered from reading it many decades ago. It is still a good read. The Audible cast version is fabulous and I especially love the performances by Tim Curry and Allan Cummings
The letter and journal format was distracting sometimes but this had quite a few great moments in horror writing. "Where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet."That's some good stuff right there. The prose was beautiful but the story seemed choppy.
I was surprised by how modern this book felt. For a book originally published in the late 19th century, it has as much suspense, horror, and action as many stories written today. Aside from a large lag in the middle, it's fairly fast--paced and was ahead of it's time. Didn't think I would enjoy it s...
The year 1992 was marked by two important events--I turned five and Francis Ford Coppola's movie adaptation to Bram Stoker's Dracula came out. And this is all perfect, and there is indeed a reason why I start this review by stating these facts. After finishing the book, there is this lingering feeli...
Well, all the vampire lore is there. The garlic, coffins, crucifixes, bats. The story itself was kind of lacking. I recognize the significance of Dracula regarding the horror genre and vampire fiction, but it really wasn't as good as I was expecting. This is, of course, heavily influenced by my aver...
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