Summer reading pleasure

[bj kuehl]

Thanks to you guys, I just received a big box full of vampire books that I purchased on amazon. I'm currently reading Dacre Stoker's sequel to _Dracula_, and I'm looking forward to three more from Dacre _Dracul_, _The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker_ (also edited by Elizabeth Miller), and Dacre's _Stoker on Stoker: Dracula Revealed_

Also awaiting my perusal are David McAfee's _33 A.D._, 61 A.D._, and 79 A.D._.

Not to mention Florence Marryat's _Blood of the Vampire_.

Any comments, suggestions, recommendations, and/or synopses would be greatly appreciated.

I gotta say that I'm glad to have found my way back to alt.vampyres. I would never have known of these books. The last vampire-oriented books I've come across are the ones in Stephenie Meyer's _Twilight_ series. I've seen the movie series, and I must say that I enjoyed maybe the first two or three of them, but I lost interest in the fourth and fifth.

Anyone know whether Stephen King has written another vampire novel? Next to _Dracula_, King's _Salem's Lot_ is one of my very favorites.

^BabyJinx^

[Marcovaldo]

I Am Dracula by C. Dean Anderson is an interesting origin story.
Dracul is a good prequel.
Dracula's Death is a novelization of a lost silent movie which may have been the first film appearance of Dracula.
I have, but have not read yet Dracula the Undead by Freda Warrington (not to be confused with the Dacre Stoker book)
Another one I have but have not read yet (I need to get busy) is Vampire by Hanns Heinz Ewers
If you want to have some fun, read the published shooting script of Ed Wood's The Vampire's Tomb, which he never filmed (Lugosi died just as filming started). If you really want to have some fun, watch the movie adaptation by director
Andre Perkowski. It's a hoot.

If you like nerdy, derivative, fan fictiony stuff, there are these:

Return of the Wolf Man. As his starting point, the author uses the end of Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein(!), then picks up 60 years later. Larry Talbot comes back from the dead to take on his old foe, Dracula.
The Devil's Brood and the Devil's Night are sequels to the above written by a different author. Dracula's Daughter figures prominently.
Dracula Asylum is a sequel to the Lugosi movie.

[bj kuehl]

Thanks Marcovaldo. You've given me enough reading ideas for the rest of the year.
In this little Port town in which I live, the only source of books are are at the local
grocery store, and they just shut down that display. I didn't realize when I moved up
here how isolated I would be from bookstores. Anyway, I'll take your reading list to
Amazon and see what I can order.

^BabyJinx^

[Weak Tea]

Enjoy. I've had success finding obscure books on ebay. Other sources to check out are abebooks.com, hamiltonbook.com and thriftbooks.com.

[Incubus]

I have another one for you: "Motherless Child", by Glen Hirshberg. From
the synopsis:

"It's the thrill of a lifetime when Sophie and Natalie, single
mothers living in a trailer park in North Carolina, meet their idol,
the mysterious musician known only as "the Whistler." Morning finds
them covered with dried blood, their clothing shredded and their
memories hazy."