"Dracula legend revived by Bram Stoker descendant"
Caught this bit the other day via Yahoo! news. According to the article the sequel to Dracula is a collaboration between Dacre Stoker, a great-grandnephew, and screenwriter and (according to another article) Dracula historianIan Holt.
They're unimpressed with the contemporary fad of the pretty, charming vampires--or at least where the old Count himself is concerned, and are trying to get back to that original image in the vampire genre. But they throw in some more modern conventions, too:
"We go back to the original but we don't leave it at that," Stoker said.
The sequel is set in 1912, 25 years after the finale of the first epistolary novel, as a series of chilling murders in London and Paris triggers a vampire hunt across Europe and unleashes terror of "the prince of darkness."
After careful analysis of 19th century notes left by Stoker, a theatre director who minutely researched background for the original novel, the two revived one of the old characters and added in a few, including a Scotland Yard detective and a lesbian vampire countess.
More significantly, perhaps, Dacre Stoker also opted to throw his ancestor into the novel.
Why create a Bram Stoker character? "He was misunderstood, mysterious, no one knows why he wrote Dracula," his great grand-nephew said. "He died without knowing the success of his iconic character. His life was a struggle."
Makes me kind of want to go read Carmilla before scoping this book out.
In other news, I finally have in my possession--my car! There's some glitches with it, some more prevalent to have looked at than others before deep winter sets in (though I must say that it's quite nice out today for mid-October), but it is here and functional. I drove it home from Faire after we closed up shop last night (it being the last day), and the only time I had to second-think something was getting from I-670 to 71 because there's a couple of real quick get-over-here-and-in-the-exit spots on a busier stretch of highway going into the city, but other than that it went fine for my first solo drive over that stretch. And so, with this new-found mobile independence that can transport me out of the general Troostwood area, I believe I shall...
Transport the overflowing basket of laundry to X-L sometime this week, and do a load or two for the first time in a month? ^^
They're unimpressed with the contemporary fad of the pretty, charming vampires--or at least where the old Count himself is concerned, and are trying to get back to that original image in the vampire genre. But they throw in some more modern conventions, too:
"We go back to the original but we don't leave it at that," Stoker said.
The sequel is set in 1912, 25 years after the finale of the first epistolary novel, as a series of chilling murders in London and Paris triggers a vampire hunt across Europe and unleashes terror of "the prince of darkness."
After careful analysis of 19th century notes left by Stoker, a theatre director who minutely researched background for the original novel, the two revived one of the old characters and added in a few, including a Scotland Yard detective and a lesbian vampire countess.
More significantly, perhaps, Dacre Stoker also opted to throw his ancestor into the novel.
Why create a Bram Stoker character? "He was misunderstood, mysterious, no one knows why he wrote Dracula," his great grand-nephew said. "He died without knowing the success of his iconic character. His life was a struggle."
Makes me kind of want to go read Carmilla before scoping this book out.
In other news, I finally have in my possession--my car! There's some glitches with it, some more prevalent to have looked at than others before deep winter sets in (though I must say that it's quite nice out today for mid-October), but it is here and functional. I drove it home from Faire after we closed up shop last night (it being the last day), and the only time I had to second-think something was getting from I-670 to 71 because there's a couple of real quick get-over-here-and-in-the-exit spots on a busier stretch of highway going into the city, but other than that it went fine for my first solo drive over that stretch. And so, with this new-found mobile independence that can transport me out of the general Troostwood area, I believe I shall...
Transport the overflowing basket of laundry to X-L sometime this week, and do a load or two for the first time in a month? ^^