The Dracula Series (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Fred Saberhagen
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—alternate history
- Time of Work: Primarily contemporary
- Setting: Various locations throughout Europe and the United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Alternate history
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Folkloric or magical people, Europe or Europeans, Vampires
- Locales: Europe, United States
The Plot
The Dracula Tape, the first and perhaps best novel in the series, retells the story found in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) from the point of view of Count Dracula himself. The novel, supposedly dictated to descendants of the Harkers, is a brilliant reexamination of the events surrounding Dracula, Jonathan Harker, Mina, Lucy, Renfield, and the horrid Van Helsing. Fred Saberhagen’s retelling has the feel of accuracy as he points out the faults in the accounts of the witnesses in Stoker’s novel and reveals a much more logical tale wherein Dracula points...
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