In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires

298pp. Sparsely illustrated. Deep red cloth boards (square, tight, clean, sharp). Internally neat, clean, bright & tight. In its original dust jacket, not price clipped (very slightly rubbed at corners). The first edition of this book was published in the 1970s; this edition has been substantially revised to reflect more recent research and contains additional material. It traces the links between Dracula of film and fiction to Vlad the Impaler; examines Bram Stoker’s newly discovered diaries as well as Ceauescu’s attempt to make Vlad a national Romanian hero; and examines recent adaptions of Stoker’s ground-breaking novel.