Thoughts on DRACULAS: A Novel of Terror – F Paul Wilson, Jeff Strand, Blake Crouch, and Joe Konrath/Jack Kilborn

This ain’t no TWILIGHT, shiny sparkly vampire book…..DRACULAS is butt-ugly from the get-go. I mean that in the best way possible. Four authors who have scared the bejeezus out of me in the past with their books have collaborated to write this scarey-ass ode to the uber Daddy of the vampires, Dracula.

Dracula’s skull (fangs and all) has been discovered by a farmer in Transylvania. Mortimer Moorecock purchases the skull for an unnamed price….all hell breaks loose from there. Mortimer is dying and decides he wants to not be that way….he takes matters into his own hands and uses the skull’s fangs to bite himself in the neck. It isn’t pretty….
The story is told through different viewpoints. Each moving on through the story is seen as it is happening to that person. The reader gets to know each character, good and bad, incompetent and reluctant hero.
I had some laugh out loud moments, especially with Randall, the “quarter shy of a dollar” dim lumberjack. Like this line, “His chainsaw-the-monster redemption would be a lot better if his ass wasn’t hanging out.” I sort of had images of Bruce Campbell’s character Ash J Williams of Evil Dead eminence when I read Randall’s scenes.
Even through the scary parts (it’s all scary), there is laughter and tears…for me anyway. These are four splendid writers who can do this to a reader.

PS….And now I really hate clowns….
PPS/PSS..whatever…did you know nondairy coffee creamer was flammable? Read the book….

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