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244. Stevens, Amanda. Dark Obsession. New York: Silhouette, 1994. Paperback. |
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Publisher series: Silhouette Shadows No. 48. |
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The sister of horror writer Erin Ramsey has been murdered, all blood drained from her body. Investigating police detective Nick Slade knows the killer. A few years before, the vampire Drake D'Angelo had turned Nick's fiancée into one of the undead. Nick destroyed the thing she had become and almost did the same to Drake. Now Drake seeks revenge. He will kill as many people as possible before going after his ultimate target Erin, the woman with whom Nick has fallen in love. |
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Element(s): Category Romance. |
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245. Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Westminster: Constable, 1897. First American edition, New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. Hardcover. Continuously in print. |
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Stoker's Dracula has come to personify what fiction readers of this century identify as a vampire: an undead creature who lives on human blood, makes his rounds at night, has superhuman strength, casts no reflection in a mirror, hates garlic, fears crosses and holy water, and can change into a bat, a wolf, or mist at will. Even though these traits are familiar and countless films have been made about Dracula, this powerfully written novel still rouses fear in even the most jaded heart. Through the journals, diaries, and letters of those besieged by this evil count, the horror builds as Dracula's plan to move his stronghold from Transylvania to Victorian England and create a new unlife for himself advances. |
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For anyone not familiar with the story, a look at the various protagonists can be useful because they often show up in other vampire stories sometimes individually but often as an ensemble. |
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Count Dracula a centuries-old vampire of immense evil who has lived his many years in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania, causing endless grief and terror to nearby residents. He plans to leave his ancestral home for England's shores. |
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Jonathan Harker a young solicitor who travels to Transylvania at the behest of the Count in order to help him prepare for the move to England. Jonathan soon realizes he is not only in the presence of a terrible evil, but worse, is a prisoner in imminent peril for his life and soul. |
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Lucy Westenra a lively, pretty young woman with three handsome suitors. She is also Dracula's first English victim. |
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