By Reggie Oliver
Bram Stoker's immortal Dracula instructed us approximately count number Dracula as an undead vampire. yet how did this grow to be? Who used to be Dracula in actual lifestyles? There has continually been hypothesis, however the Dracula Papers now deals the last word solution. It takes us again to the yr 1576, to the wild land of Transylvania and to the formative years of Prince Vladimir who got here to be the horror referred to as Dracula. the result's a narrative as striking and striking because the Bram Stoker vintage. Battles, intrigues, sorcery, sexual ardour, hauntings, a mechanical tortoise and a burning rhinoceros all have their half to play in an exciting narrative that however plunges deep into the secret of Evil. With The Dracula Papers Reggie Oliver provides a grand travel of the 16th century, and of each number of occult lore surrounding the vampire fantasy, that's rollicking, clever, macabre, yet continuously unforeseen. The Scholar's story is the 1st quantity of a scholarly and picaresque Gothick Extravaganza.
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It was the work of a moment to strip them but it was not so easy to push them into the flames. For besides the struggles of these young people — and terror endowed them with prodigious strength — every time they were brought to the fire the heat drove their persecutors back. Meanwhile Brother Saul raged and stormed at their lack of zeal. Then pikes were used, and someone produced a pitchfork with which they were prodded, crying and struggling, into the inferno. At that time I had never seen a young woman, and one so beautiful, naked before.
We had been walking round the cloister adjoining the Old Hall. I knew this habit of his. He was a man of extraordinary caution. It had been nine years before he had been persuaded to publish his blameless and unheretical work on the angels. The merest suspicion of misconduct put him in a state bordering on terror. When we were safely lodged behind a pillar Spankemius pointed a trembling finger at a dark, stocky young man sitting under a sunlit arch. He was staring rather gloomily at the wall opposite.
The Dracula Papers Book I: The Scholar’s Tale The Dracula Papers Book I: The Scholar’s Tale Reggie Oliver Chômu Press The Dracula Papers Book I: The Scholar’s Tale by Reggie Oliver Published by Chômu Press, MMXI The Dracula Papers, Book 1: The Scholar’s Tale copyright © Reggie Oliver 2010 The right of Reggie Oliver to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published in January 2011 by Chômu Press. by arrangement with the author.