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Type: fiction
Status: favorite
Author: Elizabeth Kostova
Tags: vampires horror thrilling
Description: The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cacheThe story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father's library. The pages of the book are empty except for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor." When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that Dracula--Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century--was still alive....
2007-12-07
