The Dracula Papers, Book I: The Scholar's Tale: Bk. 1 - Tapa blanda

Oliver's ability to create a sense of time and place in every one of these stories is exemplary - As a work of spiritual terror it has few peers - The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini is unquestionably brilliant.A" - Jim Rockhill, All Hallows.>>>> Reggie Oliver rediscovers many if not all the qualities which make the English Ghost Story classic.A" - Ramsey Campbell, Dark Horizons.>>>> Reggie Oliver has a controlled and vivid wit, a precise eye and ear for style, and a powerful sense of the strange - an infernally talented writer - A" - Roger Johnson, All Hallows.

Bram Stoker's immortal Dracula told us about Count Dracula as an undead vampire. But how did this come to be? Who was Dracula in real life? There has always been speculation, but The Dracula Papers now offers the ultimate answer. It takes us back to the year 1576, to the wild land of Transylvania and to the early life of Prince Vladimir who came to be the horror known as Dracula. The result is a story as remarkable and extraordinary as the Bram Stoker classic. Battles, intrigues, sorcery, sexual passion, hauntings, a mechanical tortoise and a burning rhinoceros all have their part to play in a thrilling narrative that nevertheless plunges deep into the mystery of Evil. With The Dracula Papers Reggie Oliver presents a grand tour of the sixteenth century, and of every variety of occult lore surrounding the vampire myth, that is rollicking, wise, macabre, but always unexpected. The Scholar's Tale is the first volume of a scholarly and picaresque Gothick Extravaganza.