home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!ux4.cso.uiuc.edu!mhickey
- From: mhickey@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (No One)
- Subject: Fred Saberhagen's Dracula
- Message-ID: <By6z09.165@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Summary: Fred Saberhagen's Dracula
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:09:43 GMT
- Keywords: Fred Saberhagen's Dracula
- Lines: 33
-
- A couple of years ago, I happened upon a book intitled _Dominion_
- by Fred Saberhagen. At the time I was desparate for reading material,
- so I went ahead and bought the book. (It had cool cover art too)
- As it turns out the book is a horror/thriller in which Count Dracula
- makes a few appearances. The Dracula character wasn't a killer or
- some kind of monster. Quite the opposite. He was written as a little
- understood hero. Needless to say, I was shocked. This wasn't what I
- expected at all. I have read the book several times, and the Dracula
- character in it has turned out to be one of my favorite characters I
- have ever read about.
-
- Today, I was in a book store and what do you suppose I find? A rather
- large collection of Fred Saberhagen's books, all about his version of
- Dracula. I bought one of them intitled, _The Dracula Tape_. This
- book is BETTER that _Dominion_, in that it centers around Vlad. It is
- Vlad's story of what 'really' happened in the Bram Stoker book. Keep
- in mind that in Saberhagen's stories, Vald is not a villan. Granted,
- I don't have the book finished yet, but I wanted to post this and see
- if anyone else is interested in a different view of Dracula.
-
- Tragically, misunderstood hero vs. Villanous fiend
-
-
-
- No One Of Importance
-
- ................................................................
- : 'Who are you?' : :
- : "No one of importance." : No One Of Importance :
- : 'I really must know.' : :
- : "Get used to disappointment." : mhickey@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu :
- : -The Princess Bride : :
- :.................................:............................:
-