A DYING MAN’S GREATEST TREASURE…
Mortimer Moorecook, retired Wall Street raider, avid collector, is losing his fight against cancer. With weeks to live, a package arrives at the door of his hillside mansion—an artifact he paid millions for…a hominoid skull with elongated teeth, discovered in a farmer’s field in the Romanian countryside. With Shanna, his beautiful research assistant looking on, he sinks the skull’s razor sharp fangs into his neck, and immediately goes into convulsions.
OPENS THE DOOR TO AN ANCIENT EVIL...
A rural hospital. A slow night in the ER. Until Moorecook arrives strapped to a gurney, where he promptly codes and dies.
WHERE DEATH IS JUST THE BEGINNING.
Four well-known horror authors pool their penchants for scares and thrills, and tackle one of the greatest of all legends, with each writer creating a unique character and following them through a vampire outbreak in a secluded hospital.
The goal was simple: write the most intense novel they possibly could.
Which they did.
A Word of Warning:
Within these pages, you will find no black capes, no satin-lined coffins, no brooding heartthrobs who want to talk about your feelings. Forget sunlight and stakes. Throw out your garlic and your crosses. This is the Anti-TWILIGHT.
My thoughts
I thought Dracula was a name not a creature, but getting past that having four authors combine their talent of horror and terror is a feat in itself. Draculas is a terrifying collaboration involving blood sucking creatures that overtake a hospital in their never-ending quest for blood. Written from each character’s point of view; it blends from scene to scene. This is not your romanticized vampire but a frightening tale that takes horror to the next level. To warn you it, this is graphic but I couldn’t stop reading as I wanted to find out who dies and who lives. I think the authors made their point of showing what vampires are all about. There was even a short explanation of how and why these came into existence. I think I will stop here before I write any spoilers. If you a fan of horror and/or any of these authors, read this book. And read it in the dark!
Disclosure: I received an advanced copy of this e-book for review from the authors. I received no compensation for my thoughts.
This e-book is being relased tomorrow and includes these extras:
- a clickable table of contents
- a round-robin interview with Strand, Wilson, Crouch, and Kilborn about writing DRACULAS
- deleted scenes
- two alternate endings
- four excerpts from the authors’ other works
- the short story “Serial” by Crouch and Kilborn
- the short story “Cub Scout Gore Feast” by Kilborn and Strand
- the short story “A Sound of Blunder” by Kilborn and Wilson
- author biographies
- comprehensive clickable bibliographies
- an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the writing of DRACULAS, delivered through a collection of over five hundred emails between the writers as they were brainstorming and writing the book
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