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    Drácula, el no muerto

    By Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt

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    El monstruo murió hace 25 años desintegrado, convertido en cenizas pero no ha sido tan fácil borrar las huellas de aquello que ocurrió en los Cárpatos hace un cuarto de siglo. Seward es adicto a la morfina. Holmwood se ha convertido en un hombre hermético, que nunca superó la muerte de Lucy, el amor de su vida. Jonathan es alcohólico y Mina ?quien sigue manteniendo su belleza y juventud intactas? sabe que hace tiempo que su matrimonio hace aguas. Y Van Helsing es tan excéntrico incluso es sospechoso de ser el mismísimo Jack el destripador. Quincey Harker, el hijo de Jonathan y Mina, también tiene problemas. Es estudiante de derecho en la Sorbona por imposición paterna, pero su verdadera pasión es el teatro. En París irá a ver al más reputado actor del momento, el rumano Basarab, famoso y rodeado de misterio. Lo conoce y su relación de amistad con él se hace profunda, con lo que su deseo de perseguir una carrera en las artes escénicas reaparece. Quincey se entera de que una obra llamada Drácula, de un tal Bram Stoker, está en proceso de producción en el West End londinense y decide intentar que su amigo Basarab interprete al protagonista. Cuando lee la obra se da cuenta de que está basada en las vidas de sus padres y sus amigos y decide pedirles explicaciones. Es justo entonces cuando empieza la violenta caza de todos y cada uno de los que participaron en la persecución y muerte del vampiro, un peligro que también amenaza a Quincey y más de lo que él imagina? Pero ¿quién busca venganza? Y ¿por qué después de tanto tiempo?

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    PublisherRoca editorial
    Release dateJul 14, 2010
    ISBN9788499180441
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    Drácula, el no muerto
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    Dacre Stoker

    Dacre Stoker es el sobrino biznieto de Bram Stoker autor de la novela original, Drácula. Fue miembro del equipo canadiense de Pentatlón que participó en los campeonatos mundiales de 1979 así como entrenador del equipo que participó en las Olimpiadas de Seúl de 1988. En la actualidad, Dacre, casado y con dos hijos, es el Gerente de la Aiken Land Conservancy, una entidad que protege la naturaleza en la ciudad de Carolina del Sur donde reside. Dracula, el no muerto es su primera novela.

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    • 3/5
      Unfortunately, not as good as the original. It went a little too "we could make this into a movie!" for me at points, focusing more on action than actual horror. As well, the horror was more gore than horror most of the time. Still a good book, but I guess I was hoping for something more...
    • 3/5
      This book wasn’t at all what I expected based on the fact that it’s written by Bram’s great grand-nephew and a Dracula historian. They make some changes in the way events from the first book “really” happened and the writing is very Dan Brown – passably well written, very exciting, and with more sex and violence in the chapter than in all of the original. I anticipated something a little more in the style of the first book. They do start with a letter, which is a bit of a homage to the first book, and there is also a very fun guest appearance by Bram Stoker. In fact, the inclusion of real events from Bram Stoker’s life and the inclusion of several other famous historical characters was one of my favorite parts of this book. They ended up being what I consider an acceptable justification for the changes they made in the events of the original.After I forgave the authors for messing with the original, I began to really enjoy what they’d done with it. They spell out for you the fact the vampires arouse sexual urges and that men hate and fear them for creating sexually independent women out of their demure Victorian wives. By retaining those things, and in their portrayal of the characters from the first book, I think they stay very true to Bram Stoker’s intent. Better still, they update things so that independent women aren’t quite so clearly associated with evil for the reader. They could learn from the original’s understatedness (the excessive violence is more than I would like) but this was definitely a good, solid adventure…. until the ending. I won’t say too much to avoid spoilers, but for me to really love a book with so much in it that was depressing, it needed a happier ending.
    • 2/5
      I wanted to give this book one star for being ridiculous and for reading like a screenplay (not surprising, as one of the authors is a screenwriter). But since reading the authors' notes at the end of the book, I'll reluctantly bump the rating to two stars, since the authors gave acceptable reasons for the direction the story took. Still, I really could have done without the graphic and disgusting violence--a story can be scary without going into details of evisceration and decapitation!

      As a side note, I noticed several typos throughout the text, such as "pour" instead of "poor" and "steal" rather than "steel"--don't always believe that a computer spell-check is correct!
    • 1/5
      I can't believe I accidentally gave this tripe 4 stars. Urg. Think about the worst kind of fan fiction out there, with a veneer of decent writing. Make it novel length. Then don't bother reading this book.
    • 1/5
      This was book was about two hundred pages too long. Poorly written and a shameful "sequel" to one of my all tube favorite novels.
    • 4/5
      Dracula, the Undead is a sequel written by the original author's great grand-nephew, Dacre Stoker, and a Dracula historian, Ian Holt. It's really good and has a satisfying ending. It's set in 1912, several decades later than the original's timeframe. To explain the premise of Dracula, the Undead, I have to assume you've read Dracula. In the sequel, Mina and Jonathon have a grown son, and they've tried to shelter him by telling him absolutely nothing of the vampire they fought so long ago. Of course, that leaves the headstrong Quincy Harker vulnerable as he runs headlong into danger. An evil force that rivals Dracula's in power slaughters its way through Paris and London and has reached the Harkers' inner sanctum. The original band of vampire killers feature in Dracula, the Undead, and it's interesting to read how time has changed them as they've struggled to cope with their experience and put it behind them. The novel also has a compelling romance and a different perspective on Dracula, which I enjoyed. The romantic scenes play authentically. The atmosphere and social climate of the Europe presented in Dracula, the Undead are rich and feel real. Read the novel's end matter to get an understanding of the history around both books and of how Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt carried through on Bram's vision, notes, and ideas. Dracula, the Undead is a sequel that honors the original while still appealing to modern readers and keeping its own identity. The novel is clearly a labor of love. As a Dracula fan, this made me feel good.
    • 2/5
      Co-written by Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew and a vampire expert, this official sequel tries to shoehorn in every single bit of vampire lore into its length, moving the action on into 1912, 25 years after the original novel ends. Someone is after the survivors of the original band of heroes who 'killed' Dracula and is picking them off one by one - it appears to be another evil historical figure - Elizabeth Bathory, another real person who is reputed to have bathed in girls blood, or could it be Jack the Ripper(!), or has Dracula risen again from the undead. It's up to Jonathan Harker's wife Mina, and son Quincey to stop them or be killed themselves. The novel was never sillier than when they put Bram Stoker himself into the plot as a struggling writer trying to put on a ridiculous play of his novel - for a book supposing to put right the injustices done to the Stoker family when they were denied royalties for Dracula in the USA, I couldn't understand this move. Mercifully it was a quick read!
    • 1/5
      If you love the original and don't want to see a lot of mixture of real life events with fiction (because even if parts of Dracula are based on real people, it's still a made up story), then don't read this book.

      If you've missed the characters, want to know what they possibly could have gotten up to and don't mind seeing them completely different than you remember them, then this is the book for you.
    • 5/5
      I began reading this book rather skeptically and was pleasantly surprised. The characters remain mostly the same. While the plot seemed a leap at first, it settled in and made sense. The authors have taken a great deal of time to research the background. (While some deem this "name-dropping" situations like Bram Stoker writing for the Lyceum Theatre and having a connection to Henry Irving are completely true.)The book was highly enjoyable.
    • 1/5
      I really hate to do this, be really negative about any book especially one I haven't finished but I just dont have anything positive to say about this. It may be the worst book I have ever read. It is badly written, badly plotted, the dialogue is dreadful and the book is incredibly tedious. It is just such a chore to read I almost left it on the train but I would have felt bad if someone else had found it and tried to read it.The plot if it can be called that follows on 25 years after the defeat of Dracula. It deals with the original group of characters who have carried on with theire lives but all bearing the emotional scars from the original encounter. Their lives are described in a series of boring overly long flashbacks, the sole purpose of which seems to be to pad the book out. The Harkers & co. are being hunted down one by one by a new evil and this is where any attempt at a coherent plot ends.It introduces Elizabeth Bathory as a female lesbian vampire, has Bram Stoker as a theatre owner and author of a play Dracula, name drops anyone and everyone from the time period from the actors in the play to the inspector who investigated Jack the Ripper and who is convinced that the new victims mean Jack is back and he is indeed Van Helsing, ( one of the original prime suspects in the case - who knew? ) aided and abetted by his Dracula co - conspirators. Is Dracula himself back or are Bathory and her companions the only vampires, who knows, 175 pages and I don't think I can carry on much longer to try to find out. It is driving me to house cleaning to avoid reading it. If anyone else is unfortunate enough to find that they have chosen this book to read perhaps if they make it to the end they will let me know.
    • 4/5
      Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt's Dracula, the Un-Dead is the first official sequel to Bram Stoker's original Dracula. Dacre Stoker, a direct descendant of Bram Stoker and Ian Holt, a well-known Dracula historian, have pieced together a sequel based on notes that Bram Stoker had left about characters and plots that were removed from the original book.I really enjoyed the story, if some of the plot threads seemed rather rushed. Taking place about 20 years after the events in Dracula, all the key players are still alive: Mina and Jonathan Harker are married, if somewhat unhappily, with a son, Quincey (named after Quincey Morris, who lost his life battling Dracula); Jack Seward has gone mad and has fallen more into his morphine addiction; Arthur Holmwood has taken up the title of Lord Godalming and is trying to forget the love of his life, Lucy Westenra; and Van Helsing is an old man now, trying to live long enough to finish his battle against the supernatural. Each of the key players from the original story have a part to play in this continuation, and each has to pay for their mistakes from before, one way or another.We are finally introduced to more vampires, and begin to understand that there may be quite a few in the world. The main antagonist in the story is Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a centuries-old vampire who considers herself queen of her kind. She has turned from God completely, due to not only her vampiric state but also because she is a lesbian, and has been frowned upon by her family and the church since she was mortal. She holds a particular grudge against Dracula, and that grudge is never quite made apparent, nor is it clear on what Dracula's role in this story, or even his involvement in the original Dracula is, since we, as readers, may have been deceived from the beginning.The weaving of historical figures and facts into the story was quite clever. There are ties to the Jack the Ripper murders in the story, and Bram Stoker himself even makes a guest appearance. You could tell that Stoker and Holt have done their homework, drawing on what I'm assuming are actual facts surrounding Bram Stoker's original ideas for the book and compounding on those, even dropping some of the history behind Dracula into this book as well.I would have given this book 5 stars, except for the way the story ended. Having received an advanced reader copy, I don't know if I am just missing something from the ending of my copy of the book or not, but the story simply stops. I was riding along on a wave of anticipation, waiting to see what happens next, totally engulfed in the story, and I turn the page and... nothing. We get to a certain point, left with possible cliffhangers, but there is nothing left in the book; no indication that this is the first book in a series and that the story will be continued in a later edition, just nothing. So, I'll have to be stopping off to the store now to find a copy and see if there is still something left to this story that was left out of the edition I have, or if there is going to be another book released later. And if that is going to be the case, I'm going to be annoyed. I wish that they could just release everything into one book and be done with it. The trend of constantly needing to leave people dangling with such cliffhangers is getting a little overplayed, I feel.Other than the book simply ending like it did, with no type of resolution whatsoever, I found the story to be completely entertaining. It was a fast-paced, roller coaster of a ride, touching on all the characters from the original, and adding in new characters that complimented the story well. I found myself missing the Gothic feel of the writing of the original, but writing another book in that style today probably wouldn't go over so well. I have read Dracula several times now, and part of my love for the story is the writing. I was hoping that this book would continue in that theme, also continuing on with the story told through the letters and journals of the key characters, like the original was. Stoker and Holt, however, have taken the book and really made it their own. It lacks something of the Gothic feel of the original, but plays homage enough to it that you can overlook the large stylistic changes. Overall, a fun read and a good enough sequel to the original.
    • 2/5
      I was really excited to read this book because I love the original Dracula novel. Unfortunately, this book does not live up to its predecessor. The authors state in their notes at the end of the book that they made some of the changes they made to appeal to fans of the film who have never read the book. This was reinforced by the fact that Ian Holt originally conceived of the book as a screenplay. While I might have been more forgiving of some of these changes in a movie sequel, I was frustrated by them in a book sequel. I wanted a sequel that told a new and exciting story but stayed true to the spirit of the original. Instead, I got a sensationalistic, slightly sex-obsessed "modern" vampire novel using the same character names as Bram Stoker. Its a shame they wasted such a good opportunity.
    • 1/5
      Wow. I had such high hopes for this one. They turned vampires (and Mina) into super-heroes (I hate super-hero vampires). It had interesting moments (such as including Bram Stoker in the novel as a character, along with the characters from the original Dracula), and had Elizabeth Bathory as a vampire... but, wow. Victorian-age superheroes vs. supervillains. Not at all what I wanted or expected.
    • 3/5
      This book was enjoyable. It added a nice bit of history of another famous "vampire" in Elizabeth Bathory, but I did take some issues with the way Dracula came to be portrayed in this novel. It's like they Twilightified him, so that he was just another misunderstood vampire. What?It was a fun read though and it was an interesting look at how the characters of the novel dealt with things and the way normal people dealt with the supernatural.
    • 2/5
      I met Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt at BookExpo and got an autographed ARC copy of this book for free. That's the good news -- I got it for free. I liked Dacre Stoker (notice how I didn't mention Ian Holt...) and I wanted to like his book but I was disappointed. I was hoping for more Dracula and less Elizabeth Bathory and Jack the Ripper. Actually, there were about 400 characters in the book and the game of recognizing them started distracting me from the plot. Besides for characters from the original book, Bram Stoker was a character in the book plus lots of the real people that he associated with as well as many characters with the names of actors who have played Dracula. For example, there was a character in the book named Langella. There were some good action scenes and Ian Holt probably hopes that it will make a great movie.

      Two stars was an act of charity because Dacre Stoker seems like such a nice guy.
    • 3/5
      Unfortunately, not as good as the original. It went a little too "we could make this into a movie!" for me at points, focusing more on action than actual horror. As well, the horror was more gore than horror most of the time. Still a good book, but I guess I was hoping for something more...
    • 4/5
      I really liked how the author tied some historic events into the story and thought it was very creative.It was also a quick read.
    • 2/5
      Oh dear, this book was really dreadful, amateurish and full of anachronisms. Mina Harker was seduced by Dracula [who is actually a goodie, regarding himself as a warrior for Christ]] and he awakened passions in her that the weakling and soon-to-be alcoholic Jonathan Harker could never hope to emulate with his vanilla love making. Jack Seward is a morphine addict, Lord Godalming never recovers from his broken heart, Van Helsing is not the kindly patriarchal saint we imagined him, and Mina's son [now 25] is a naive and judgmental prig. A thoroughly unlikable set of characters.Add the villainous Elizabeth Bathory to the mix and oh dear - Bram Stoker is surely spinning in his grave...
    • 5/5
      Excellent book! I love the developement of our old friends and the way Dracula was portrayed! I have always loved Dracula and thought there was more to him then the evil that meets the eye! Ending definately left it open for some more!
    • 2/5
      I certainly don't think Bram Stoker would approve of this "sequel" to his original Dracula novel. This book is cliched and cheesy as hell. It was still entertaining, but don't expect any literary masterpiece here.
    • 2/5
      I always like to read sequels and spin-offs of my favorite popular works of fiction, so I was excited to get this one because it is co-written by someone in Stoker's family and I thouught it would be interesting to get the family perspective and be an excellent addition to the Dracula story. It started off well and I thought that the original idea was good, it really has a lot of promise but somewhere in the writing, the execution of the plot goes all wrong. It just doesn't flow well and I felt the writing could have been much better. There was some original ideas like the bringing in Countess Bathory as a villian and including all of the original characters and what they have become over time. I even thought including the Jack the Ripper theme had potential but it just never came together. Also, I made the mistake of re-reading the original before reading this one and I found the characters in the spin-off to be more flawed, one dimensional and flat. I was terribly disappointed in this book considering it could have been great.
    • 3/5
      This book was a movie script with all the dramatic visual effects of a movie. And, in keeping with modern tastes, one of the vampires is a good guy. The book was written by a relative of Bram Stoker and a screenwriter. It seems to me that the screenwriter had much the greater input. Expect this one on the big screen someday if the authors can make a good deal.I cannot in all conscience recommend this book but I won't trash it either. Read it and make up your own mind.
    • 1/5
      WoW! If this book had been any cheesier, I could have thrown it on a pizza and baked it! Every cliche imaginable, every melodramatic, cheese filled moment you can possibly imagine was thrown into this book. Had such very high hopes. This first few chapters were good and promising. And then it turned into something worse than the worst B movie I've ever seen.
    • 2/5
      Started out interestingly enough, but then turned into "A World of No".
    • 4/5
      This was a thoroughly entertaining novel. Well written, good plot, interesting characters - quite a page turner. The story takes place several years after the events of the original Dracula and introduces Elizabeth Bathory, a truly evil vampire. Dracula is somewhat re-written from the original - someone has suggested he's been 'twighlighted' and that's a fair assessment. That didn't detract from the enjoyment of the story for me though. Well worth reading.
    • 3/5
      Ironically, I found it difficult to finish this book, which is the same issue I had with the original. Although, with this one, I really didn't care what happened at the end. I just wanted to finish it so I had a date to put in my LibraryThing book details.
    • 3/5
      I wanted to like this book. Oh, you have no idea how badly I wanted to like this book. And I do, sort of, kind of, in a funny way.I think I would like it if it was a movie and all the names were changed. Because that's what it read like: a movie. I could see each scene in my mind, the dramatic moments, the cinematic special effects... But to me, that wasn't what the original Dracula was about to me.The characters, the original Band of Heroes, have fallen onto hard times. This is completely understandable; they went and fought a monster that shouldn't exist and had to kill a dearly beloved friend. I can see how the authors decided to make certain characters have certain vices. But some of them seemed to have just changed fundamentally. I don't like what they did with Mina (but then again, after reading the original novel, I didn't think there was that separate romantic interest there. Coppola's movie was the first time I saw that and I did a double-take). Or with her husband, Jonathan. I think the biggest insult was what they did to Van Helsing and Dracula himself. I could never see the expert vampire hunter succumbing to what he did. It just doesn't seem right, the way his story ended. I would have rather him have a heart attack.And I believe I read it in a review here, they did Twilight-ify Count/Prince Dracula. The impression I got of him in the original novel was completely overturned for this dramatic antihero who really never meant to do any harm that wasn't justified. He lost everything about him that made him effectively scary and it was replaced with something I could see girls swooning over (I rather liked swooning over the dark scary one, thanks ;)). And if his origins were supposed to be secret, then the authors failed. As well as their big "shocking secret" at the end.I found the book was just without the subtle and gothic-y horror that made Dracula so famous. It took it down an action-packed, romantic, hyped up novel that really, to me, reads like it was written to go straight into film, sometimes being too sparse. It's not that it wasn't worth reading - I did finish in a day - but it was not what I think I expected (nor what a lot of Dracula-fans did).
    • 4/5
      I really liked this book, it had a quick pace that kept me interested. I loved the inclusion of historical details and people, including Bram Stoker himself. The addition of Elizabeth Bathory to the cast of villains is a great choice; the descriptions of her life help humanize and let the reader see how she became so twisted. I don't want to give too much away so I will only say that it is very interesting to see how the lives of all of the heroes from the original Dracula turn out, and how those experiences have affected each of them.
    • 1/5
      I'm a huge fan of Bram Stoker's Dracula and was very disappointed in this novel. Had it not been billed as the sequel to Dracula written by a descendant of Stoker, I may have been more generous and given the book two stars. Some really great ideas just fizzled or became annoying because it seemed like the authors were imaging the book being made into a movie. Cardboard characters.
    • 2/5
      Gruesome, lurid and violent are just a few of the words I'd use to describe this book. I just don't think that it was necessary to write a sequel to "Dracula." And the authors appear to have set it up for a sequel to THIS book. Please, no.