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C. Dean Andersson and Dracula welcome you to Page 2!
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This regal cover art for I AM DRACULA is by Richard Newton, who also painted the cover for I AM FRANKENSTEIN (see Page 3).
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Notice the name on the back of Dracula's throne. According to scholars of the historical Dracula, the 15th century Wallachian warlord known as Vlad the Impaler, DRAKULYA is the correct spelling of Dracula's name. In the book this correction is mentioned, and happily Newton used it in the painting.
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As a child, the night I saw my first Dracula film I was so frightened by the HORROR OF DRACULA that I kept seeing the images when I later closed my eyes to sleep. Scared though I was, I wanted to know more, read Bram Stoker's DRACULA, and in the years to come read other books, both fiction and non-fiction, about Dracula and Vampires, as well as various books on other Occult themes. But no one ever explained to my satisfaction exactly HOW Dracula had become a Vampire. I began writing that story myself in the late 1970s, approaching it as if Dracula were telling the story. In the writing, I strove to violate neither the history of the historical Warlord Dracula nor the Un-Dead legends immortalized by Bram Stoker in order to create a "hidden history" of Dracula's vampiric origin.
After undergoing several transformations, I AM DRACULA was published in 1993. Having soon sold out, it was reprinted on its fifth anniversary in 1998.
Check out the links below for the publisher's I AM DRACULA page, and a link to information about the Dallas-Fort Worth branch of the Horror Writers Association (HWA). And try the link to THE PARASITORIUM - "For lovers of writing and dark fiction," a site founded by Del Stone, Jr., which I highly recommend. Then keep on travelin' to Page 3!
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