Dracula's Bloodline
Author : Radu R. Florescu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013-08-02
ISBN 10 : 9780761861584
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (761 users)
Download or read book Dracula's Bloodline PDF or another Format written by Radu R. Florescu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engrossing book tells the story of the Florescu family, from its feudal blood ties, to the notorious 15th century figure Vlad Tepes (Count Dracula), right up to present day, touching on such diverse personalities as the Kennedys, Bill Clinton, and Michael Jackson. In the tradition of Alex Haley’s Roots, Dracula’s Bloodline relates a multi-generational saga through the prism of one family’s narrative, from medieval Eastern Europe to the post-Communist era. The book provides an inside look at Romania’s bloody and turbulent history—a mostly untold narrative that embraces the cruel Ottoman invasions, vying boyars seeking to change the political order at home, and the toppling of the Ceausescu regime. The story of each century is told through the eyes of one Florescu (or more) who had a unique perch from which to view his or her contemporary society. Florescu and Cazacu drew on research that had mostly been kept in family hands. To track the Florescu footprint down through the centuries since the 1400s, they used many sources: the Brasov archives in Transylvania, select letters, unpublished diaries, and extensive family documents that have been scattered from Europe to the United States. This fully indexed book offers many photographs from family archives, as well as a glossary of terms and titles, and a full genealogy showing the Florescu’s family links to Vlad Tepes.
Bloodline 2
Author : Kate Cary
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2007-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9781101217979
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (11 users)
Download or read book Bloodline 2 PDF or another Format written by Kate Cary and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Seward thought she had escaped the darkness of Transylvania. But now, back in England, she has terrible nightmares, fears the night, and sees vampires everywhere she turns. When a strange virus weakens her father, Mary suspects that there's a far more sinister explanation for the disease than doctors can provide. Then Mary's worst nightmare comes true: Quincey Harker, heir to Count Dracula's bloodline, appears in England. He declares his eternal love for Mary and claims he has renounced his evil heritage. Is he telling the truth or playing a deadly game?
Transylvanica High Series Bundle: Count Dracula's Teenage Daughter\Out For Blood\Daughter of Count Dracula
Author : R. Barri Flowers
Publisher : R. Barri Flowers
Release Date :
ISBN 10 :
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)
Download or read book Transylvanica High Series Bundle: Count Dracula's Teenage Daughter\Out For Blood\Daughter of Count Dracula PDF or another Format written by R. Barri Flowers and published by R. Barri Flowers. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transylvanica High Series Bundle contains three full-length novels of the bestselling teen vampire series by R. Barri Flowers, including Count Dracula’s Teenage Daughter, Out For Blood: Kula's Destiny, and Daughter of Count Dracula: Kula's Dilemma. In Count Dracula’s Teenage Daughter, Kula Lockhart learns at age 16 that she is the half-human daughter of the powerful Count Dracula. As she comes to grips with this while attending Transylvanica High School in Harbor Heights, Michigan, Kula must also deal with a vampire killer on the prowl, a pesky and powerful cheerleader vamp named Jacquelyn Brossard, and a romance with a handsome human named Eriq Pratt. A totally original concept on an old theme. In Out For Blood: Kula's Destiny, Kula Lockhart faces new challenges and threats while attending the human and vampire integrated school Transylvania High, as she adjusts to being the half-vamp daughter of Count Dracula. The arrival of half-vamp Sebastian LeBlanc and vamp Gabryela Roswell coincides with vampire attacks on humans and Kula fends off advances toward boyfriend Eriq by a mortal girl, while also hoping to learn more about her human mother who died in childbirth from the only person who can give her answers--her dad, Count Dracula. In Daughter of Count Dracula: Kula's Dilemma, Kula is devastated when her mortal boyfriend, Eriq Pratt, is left clinging to life after a car accident orchestrated by a vampire hunter and takes desperate measures to save him. Gabryela Roswell, Kula's vamp half-sister, and vamp Jacquelyn Brossard, a member of the rival Doerzic clan, jockey for power and romance at Transylvanica High, as a pair of teen vampires target the elderly of Harbor Heights for their blood. Finally, Kula is given the shock of her life when her birth mother she believed was dead, shows up in Harbor Heights. But is it a blessing or curse? Fans of popular teen vampire and paranormal fiction series such as Twilight, True Blood, Vampire Academy, and Vampire Diaries, will love the first three books in this captivating young adult paranormal series. Bonus material includes an excerpt of book four in the Transylvanica High series, Count Dracula's Daughters: Sisters at War; a prequel novella of the series, Vampire Classmates; and an excerpt from the author's Hawaii young adult adventure, mystery and coming of age novel, Summer at Paradise Ranch.
Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories
Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Titan Books
Release Date : 2017-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9781781165713
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (781 users)
Download or read book Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories PDF or another Format written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of horror short stories by acclaimed author, journalist and movie-critic Kim Newman. This volume contains twenty-one stories featuring famous figures from Edgar Allan Poe to Frankenstein's monster, and includes a brand-new, exclusive Anno Dracula story 'Yokai Town: Anno Dracula 1899'.
Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju
Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Titan Books
Release Date : 2019-10-22
ISBN 10 : 9781785658877
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (785 users)
Download or read book Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju PDF or another Format written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel in the acclaimed alternate history vampire series from Kim Newman. "Compulsory reading... glorious" – Neil Gaiman on Anno Dracula THE NEW MILLENNIUM... Vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a New Year’s Eve party in Daikaiju Plaza – a building in the shape of a giant mechanical dragon – in Tokyo, attended by world leaders of technology, finance and culture. But the party is crashed by less enlightened souls. The distinguished guests are held hostage by yakuza assassins and Transylvanian mercenaries. And vampire schoolgirl Nezumi – sword-wielding agent of the Diogenes Club – finds herself alone, pitted against the world’s deadliest creatures. Thrown out of the party, she must fight her way back up through a building that seems designed to destroy her in a thousand ways. Can Nezumi survive past midnight?
Dracula's Wars
Author : James Waterson
Publisher : The History Press
Release Date : 2016-07-04
ISBN 10 : 9780750969161
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (75 users)
Download or read book Dracula's Wars PDF or another Format written by James Waterson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real Dracula was far from Bram Stoker’s well-mannered aristocrat. Better known as Vlad the Impaler, he was named for his favoured execution method: running a spear through his victim’s lower body, then standing them upright so it skewered their vital organs. In a world ruled by petty tyrants and constantly at war, the young Dracula was held hostage by the Turks while his father was assassinated and his brother was buried alive. Finally released, Dracula conducted an almighty purge, surrounding his palace with noblemen impaled on stakes. Then he turned his attention to military campaigns against the Turks and Bulgars to consolidate his power. Yet to Romanians and the Pope he was a hero and liberator, fighting to protect his kingdom and countrymen from invasion in a complex and treacherous time. And, as an initiate in the Order of the Dragon, Dracula also played a vital (if not entirely noble) part in the fight against the Ottoman war machine. In this full account of Vlad Dracula, James Waterson details the good and the bad of this warlord prince, offering a fascinating insight into the violent end of the Middle Ages.
Vlad All Over
Author : Beth Orsoff
Publisher : Clark Street Books
Release Date : 2012
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 334 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)
Download or read book Vlad All Over PDF or another Format written by Beth Orsoff and published by Clark Street Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwen Andersen loves being a schoolteacher, but she isn’t exactly raking in the big bucks. With her bank account shrinking by the minute, she needs a well-paying summer job if she’s going to hold onto the childhood home she inherited from her parents. So when the father of one of her students asks her to fill in as his au pair for the summer, she knows she should be thrilled. Alexander Romanescu is loaded, and Gwen adores his daughter Isabella. Plus, they’re planning to spend the vacation at their ancestral estate—in Romania! And yet Gwen can’t shake the nagging feeling that saying yes to this man could lead to more than she bargained for. She knows so little about him—and the idea of spending six weeks in the land of Dracula and Vlad the Impaler is more than a little creepy. But the legends of Romania will be the least of her concerns if she doesn’t make some money…fast. And so Gwen says yes: yes to the job, yes to a European excursion…and yes to a summer that will change her path forever. With her trademark crackling dialogue, exotic locations, and knack for realistic characters, Beth Orsoff delivers an engrossing tale of love, intrigue, and betrayal. This is not your typical chick lit tale. This is something new. This is gothic chick lit.
Anno Dracula - Dracula Cha Cha Cha
Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Titan Books
Release Date : 2012-10-26
ISBN 10 : 9780857685353
Pages : 480 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (857 users)
Download or read book Anno Dracula - Dracula Cha Cha Cha PDF or another Format written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LA DOLCE MORTE Rome 1959 and Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire companion Geneviève. Along with the undead British secret agent Bond, Kate is swiftly caught up in the mystery of the Crimson Executioner, who is bloodily dispatching vampire elders in the city. Also includes the brand-new novella Aquarius. Back in London, two party girls are found murdered, virtually drained of their blood. Kate Reed investigates, and finds herself face to face with an old enemy.
Dracula Terrorizes Seattle
Author : Richard Shallow
Publisher : iUniverse
Release Date : 2016-11-07
ISBN 10 : 9781532010279
Pages : 278 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (532 users)
Download or read book Dracula Terrorizes Seattle PDF or another Format written by Richard Shallow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down through the ages, people have been fascinated by horror stories! There had always been mystical stories of the spilling of blood, like blood sacrifices to the gods for a good harvest or the consumption of blood from a warrior to gain the dead warriors strength. Look no further than our own Bible. Look at Cain and Abel, the Aztec, Toltec, Inca, and many of the Central and South American tribes. A person walking past a narrow alley in the daytime will give it a quick glance and think nothing of it. But add the darkness of a late night or a sudden wind or a sudden noise or a shadow upon the wall and have that same person walk past that same alley, and he will conjure up within his mind all kinds of things hiding in that alley. Many people are fascinated by eternal life and staying young forever. As an example, look at the money we spend on makeup to camouflage our age. A vampire can accomplish staying young forever by drinking the blood of the living. It is the ancient ritual of consuming the blood of the living to extend ones life or to absorb virility, strength, and youth of the one that was killed. There are stories that have been handed down through the ages about the existence of vampires in the Far East, like China and Japan, all over Europe, but mostly in Eastern Europe, particularly in Romania and Bulgaria.
From Dickens to Dracula
Author : Gail Turley Houston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-06-30
ISBN 10 : 0521846773
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (846 users)
Download or read book From Dickens to Dracula PDF or another Format written by Gail Turley Houston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the realism of Dickens to the horror of Dracula, Gail Turley Houston examines how the language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period. Houston pays particular attention to the term 'panic' as it moved between its double uses as a banking term and a defining emotion in sensational fiction.
Download or read book The Cure PDF or another Format written by Eileen Sheehan and published by Earth Wise Books. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with action, suspense, danger, magic, and a little bit of love, book two of The Tugurlan Chronicles, THE CURE, picks up where book one, VAMPIRE INIQUITY,left off. Just when the slayers thought they could take some time to unwind and recover from their death defying battle against Dracula's offspring, Dan's cousin,Bruce, has an unexpected run in with werewolves and is wounded. Now, instead of the slayers searching for vampires, they’re searching for a cure for Bruce before he reaches the point of no return. While roaming the caverns of the Arizona mountains, Bruce meets Tatyana, a young woman running from vampires. Fortunately for him, she’s no stranger to the occult. It’s a bonus that she’s able to communicate telepathically! She joins in race in searching for the cure.. Will they get it in time? A reader in the UK says: "5 Stars. Paranormal Fantasy. Feisty, gutsy and a really good read.Great world and character building, so much so that you begin to like the bad guys! Interesting and gripping, a good page-turner."
The Bloody Red Baron
Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Titan Books
Release Date : 2012-04-27
ISBN 10 : 9780857685346
Pages : 592 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (857 users)
Download or read book The Bloody Red Baron PDF or another Format written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1918 and Graf von Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The war of the great powers in Europe is also a war between the living and the dead. Caught up in the conflict, Charles Beauregard, an old enemy of Dracula, his protégé Edwin Winthrop, and intrepid vampire reporter Kate Reed go head-to-head with the lethal vampire flying machine that is the Bloody Red Baron... In the brand-new novella Vampire Romance, Genevieve Dieudonne, newly returned to England, infiltrates a singular vampire gathering in the service of the Diogenes Club.
The GorehoundÕs Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s
Author : Scott Aaron Stine
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2011-09-09
ISBN 10 : 9780786491407
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (786 users)
Download or read book The GorehoundÕs Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s PDF or another Format written by Scott Aaron Stine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the uninitiated the author has obligingly supplied a definition for the slasher/splatter film: “Any motion picture which contains scenes of extreme violence in graphic and grisly detail....” For those film viewers who think this is a good thing and are more likely to select The Texas Chainsaw Massacre than The Remains of the Day, or for those who are not quite sure but are nevertheless drawn to the phantasmagoric, or for those horrified by gratuitous violence and blood for blood’s sake but are researching this filmic phenomenon, this reference book provides all the gory details. From At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul Away to Zombie 2: The Dead Are Among Us, this book is an exhaustive study of the splatter films of the 1960s and 1970s. After a history of the development of the genre, the main meat of the book is a filmography. Each entry includes extensive credits, alternate names and foreign release titles; availability of the film on videocassette; availability of soundtracks and film novelization; and reviews. Extensive cross-referencing is also included.
Blood of the Impaler
Author : Jeffrey Sackett
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Release Date : 2012
ISBN 10 :
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)
Download or read book Blood of the Impaler PDF or another Format written by Jeffrey Sackett and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BLOOD REMEMBERS... Malcolm Harker is heir to the family fortune - and he is about to discover the family curse. Sunlight burns his eyes, consecrated wine sears his throat, and dark memories fill his dreams. The answer rests in his name, his ancient blood, and a terrifying legend that is much, much more than legend. It is fact THE BLOOD CALLS... Malcolm Harker is an educated man.To unmask the lie that his family has accepted as truth, Harker must find the crypt of Vlad of Wallachia, the man once known as the Impaler. He must prove that the vampire prince has no power over the blood coursing through his veins. But when the century-old princess of the Undead arises, the blood calls - and Malcolm will answer. BLOOD OF THE IMPALER
Download or read book Hermit PDF or another Format written by Liu ShuiBuXi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If there comes a day when you will die and your name is qualified to be carved on top of an Emperor, how will you choose?" Close]
Anno Dracula
Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Titan Books
Release Date : 2017-10-24
ISBN 10 : 9781781165645
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (781 users)
Download or read book Anno Dracula PDF or another Format written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From London to Tokyo... In 1899 Geneviève Dieudonné travels to Japan with a group of vampires exiled from Great Britain by Prince Dracula. They are allowed to settle in Yōkai Town, the district of Tokyo set aside for Japan’s own vampires, an altogether strange and less human breed than the nosferatu of Europe. Yet it is not the sanctuary they had hoped for, as a vicious murderer sets vampire against vampire, and Yōkai Town is revealed to be more a prison than a refuge. Geneviève and her undead comrades will be forced to face new enemies and the horrors hidden within the Temple of One Thousand Monsters...
Out For Blood: Kula's Destiny
Author : R. Barri Flowers
Publisher : R. Barri Flowers
Release Date : 2013-12-25
ISBN 10 :
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)
Download or read book Out For Blood: Kula's Destiny PDF or another Format written by R. Barri Flowers and published by R. Barri Flowers. This book was released on 2013-12-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From R. Barri Flowers, the bestselling author of the young adult vampire novel, Count Dracula's Teenage Daughter, comes the exciting book two in the Transylvanica High series, Out For Blood: Kula's Destiny. Sixteen-year-old honor student Kula Lockhart is in her second year at Transylvanica High School in Harbor Heights, Michigan. It is one of several integrated pilot schools across the country where human and vampire students peacefully coexist. Kula recently learned that she is the half human, half vampire daughter of Count Dracula. This has made her a target for those who hate her powerful Dad and vamps in general. As she comes to terms with her heritage and newfound abilities, things begin to heat up between Kula and her mortal boyfriend, Eriq Pratt. She also has her vamp guardians Ivan and Amelia, as well as several human and vampire friends, to balance her evolving life and times. When Kula suddenly finds herself being pursued by a new handsome half vamp at school, Sebastian LeBlanc, she is strangely drawn to him, even if her heart belongs to Eriq. Yet Kula can’t help but wonder if it is more than coincidence that Sebastian just happened to arrive in town at around the same time that a vampire or vampires began killing humans. Could Sebastian be behind these vicious attacks? Another new vampire, Gabryela Roswell, befriends Kula, but has a hidden agenda. In the meantime, Kula has competition from an attractive human girl, Yvonne Elwood, who has her eye on Eriq. She also has to deal with the gorgeous and mean-spirited cheerleader vamp, Jacquelyn Brossard, a member of the rival Doerzic clan. As Kula grapples with these issues and the changes in her life, she tries to learn more about her mother, who died in childbirth, from the only person who can give her answers--her dad, Count Dracula.
