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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780440224426
ISBN number: 044022442X
Label: Dell
Manufacturer: Dell
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: September 08, 1997
Publishing house: Dell
Release Date: September 08, 1997
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After the death of his half brother, Stefan, at the hands of Vlad Tsepesh--also known as Dracula--and after the destruction of his vampire father, Arkady, also at the hands of Vlad, Abraham van Helsing has traveled the world slaying many vampires. With every vampire he destroys, Bram becomes stronger and Vlad weaker, and soon Bram hopes he will be able to finally kill the fearsome vampire who has kept the Tsepesh family enslaved through a centuries-old blood ritual.
But a desperate Vlad and his vampire great-niece, Zsuzanna, summon help from the most powerful, brutal, and beautiful vampire of all--Countess Elizabeth of Bathory. Bram learns of their plot to destroy him, and makes his own move to strike out at Vlad before Vlad can put him to death. He teams up with a courageous band of humans as he hunts Vlad--including Mina Harker and John Seward--and they finally succeed in killing the head of the Tsepesh clan, just as Bram Stoker foretold in Dracula. But the terror does not end with the death of Vlad, for there is another force that drives Vlad, Zsuzanna, Elizabeth and all the vampires, an ancient entity more evil than anything Bram has ever encountered: the Lord of the Vampires. And for Bram to defeat this dark lord, he must once again risk losing his very soul, to save not only his family, but humanity as well.
In her final book in The Diaries of the Family Dracul trilogy, Jeanne Kalogridis brilliantly melds her own fascinating story of the Tsepesh family with that of Bram Stoker's classic, Dracula. Told in diary form like the very first two books and Stoker's own chilling tale, LORD OF THE VAMPIRES reveals the dark, startling truths behind the original Dracula.
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This third and final volume retelling the familiar Bram Stoker original Dracula augments the story by introducing the legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who lived some 150 years after Vlad Tepesh (Stoker's vampire model) - her real story is well described in the accessible The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu. Elizabeth is accused of living a life of debauchery and patronage of occult arts as well as the murder of some 650 virgins in order to bathe in their blood. Imprisoned by clerical authorities for 5 years of interrogation on the eve of the horrific Thirty Years War of religious doctrines, she was never convicted. The Bathory family included Duke Stepan of Transylvania who ascended the throne of Poland and Lithuania by marrying the daughter of the last Jagellonian king and then proceeded to roll back the conquests of Ivan the Terrible. The real facts of this time are more interesting than the vampiric literary inventions.
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"Lord of the vampires" is the last of the trilogy of "The Diaries of the Family Dracul". The very first book is "Covenant With the Vampire" and the second is "Children of the Vampire. The reason I mentioned the other novels is because they really should be read before reading this one. All are highly engrossing and interesting. How Ms Kalogridis thought up all this is beyond me - but she is obviously talented. Although all the books are wonderful reads - be prepared - there are strange situations in the books - among them are incest and homosexuality. The books don't go into to much "intimate" details on these subjects - and they're not something that carries on into the complete story. So the squeamish should tolerate them just fine. Therefore, I would advise anyone who likes vampire novels to purchase all three of them.
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This is quite possibly the most dissapointing novel I have ever read, horror or otherwise. After two GREAT books in the series, the final book is rushed and features every two-bit hackneyed method the author could come up with. It starts off great for the very first 200 pages, don't get me wrong. The parts with Elizabeth, Vlad, Harker, and Zsusanna are absoulutely perfect. But once we get to England...it's formula all the way, with some 'twists' thrown in to endeavor to keep the reader guessing. This book is deservingly spoiled when I say that the ending to the entire series is cobbled together from the last ten pages of the book, and everything beforehand is utterly pointless.
But if you want a good read, you can always just read the very first 200 pages and then make up your own ending. That's what I wish I had done before I had unfortunetly kept reading.
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This book was really a great prequel to Dracula considering that it runs right into that book/movie by Bram Stoker. Jeanne really knows how to use history and the myths of vampires to her advantage and weave them into a tale that anyone interested in this type of genre would want to read.
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Kalogridis has full round characters, and the evil in this Vlad Dracul leaves Bramstoker's character almost as a child, to read the very first book was enough to realize i had a great trilogy on my hands. Few authors can infuse such live in each and everyone of the characters.
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