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The Crypt of Dracula by [Kane Gilmour, Scott P. Vaughn]

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For too long, evil has slumbered. But now, the prince of darkness has arisen…and he thirsts.

THE CRYPT OF DRACULA

In 1899, master stone craftsman Andreas Wagner takes a job restoring an old castle in the rural mountains of Hungary. He and his mute young wife are hoping to find a new life, after the traumatic death of their infant daughter from a strange wasting disease in Munich. The eccentric Count who owns the castle, a suave but distant man, keeps strange hours. Still, Wagner settles in to the work nicely.

But then strange things start to happen in the remote castle on the cliff. The Count’s manservant is alternately elusive or confrontational. The locals are secretive and suspicious. Wagner is nearly killed by inexplicable falling masonry. A giant bat attacks his companions. Ghostly apparitions of women with claws and fangs prowl the halls of the gloomy castle late at night. When his friend falls ill from the same disease his daughter died of, Wagner decides it’s time to leave and look for a doctor, even if it means abandoning gainful employment.

But Count Dracula and his minions have other plans. For Wagner, what began as a simple job, soon becomes a frantic battle for survival and a race against the setting sun to rescue his wife and stop the spread of an ancient evil.

“All the hallmarks of a great 1970s classic creature flick are here: spooky castle, the gentleman creature of the night, and harried villagers poised to grab pitchforks and torches. Gilmour brings Dracula back, with a dash of 21st century adventure and a twist you won’t see coming.” —Jeremy Bishop, #1 bestselling horror author of Torment and The Sentinel

“THE CRYPT OF DRACULA is how a vampire novel should be written. It’s suspenseful, frightening, dark, and realistic. It harkens back to the day when ‘monster’ movies played at Saturday matinees and at midnight showings. Somewhere, Bram Stoker is smiling. He’s beaming from ear to ear because someone finally got it right, and that someone is Kane Gilmour.” —Mark Adduci, Suspense Magazine

“If you are a fan of the old-style Dracula stories, you will definitely enjoy reading THE CRYPT OF DRACULA by Kane Gilmour. Kane did an amazing job recreating the feel of Stoker while adding his own style. Travel to a magnificent castle perched dangerously on a cliff in Romania, with a very dark and dangerous secret. Within the walls hide your worst nightmares, blood-thirsty and evil. Finally, a vampire that makes you weak in the knees and afraid of the dark. There are definitely no emo, glittering vampires in this book! Be prepared to sleep with the lights on.” —Carol ‘Pixie’ Brearley, author of RISE OF THE DARK ANGEL

“Experience the Count again...for the first time! Gilmour’s version of Dracula is both homage to the classic Hammer films and a re-imagining that will have you peeking out your covers at night, while at the same time giggling like Renfield with each turn of the page. Don’t let the sun go down before getting this awesome book!” —J. Kent Holloway, author of DEVIL’S CHILD and THE CURSE OF ONE-EYED JACK

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"THE CRYPT OF DRACULA is how a vampire novel should be written. It's suspenseful, frightening, dark, and realistic. It harkens back to the day when 'monster' movies played at Saturday matinees and at midnight showings. Somewhere, Bram Stoker is smiling. He's beaming from ear to ear because someone finally got it right, and that someone is Kane Gilmour." —Mark Adduci, Suspense Magazine

"All the hallmarks of a great 1970s classic creature flick are here: spooky castle, the gentleman creature of the night, and harried villagers poised to grab pitchforks and torches. Gilmour brings Dracula back, with a dash of 21st century adventure and a twist you won't see coming." —Jeremy Bishop, #1 bestselling horror author of Torment and The Sentinel

About the Author

Kane Gilmour has lived all over the world. He is the bestselling co-author of the #1 Amazon.com Science Fiction and #1 Action & Adventure thriller RAGNAROK, in Jeremy Robinson's Jack Sigler/Chess Team series. He is also the author of the Jason Quinn thriller series.

RESURRECT was his first novel. THE CRYPT OF DRACULA is the first in a series of nostalgic horror novellas. Kane lives with his wife, son, and daughter in the wilds of Central Vermont.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CKIFLD6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quickdraw Books (January 1, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 659 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #1,304,123 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,432 in Horror Fiction Classics
- #1,493 in British Horror Fiction
- #1,978 in Occult Suspense

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Kane Gilmour
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Kane Gilmour is the international bestselling author of The Crypt of Dracula. He has co-authored several titles with Jeremy Robinson and also writes his own thriller novels. In addition to his work in novels, Kane has had short stories appear in several anthologies and magazines, and he worked on artist Scott P. Vaughn’s sci-fi noir webcomic, Warbirds of Mars as well as on Jeremy Robinson’s comic book adaptation of the novel Island 731. He lives with his significant other, his kids, her kids, and three dogs in Vermont. He’s thinking of buying a farm to house them all.
Visit him online at: kanegilmour.com.
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Scott P Vaughn
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Scott P. ‘Doc’ Vaughn is a Phoenix-based Illustrator, Comic Artist, Writer, and Author originally hailing from Wisconsin. When he’s not hard at work on commissions, he’s trying to catch up on drawing his Web-Comic creation, WARBIRDS OF MARS. He also co-edited (with Kane Gilmour) and contributed two short stories to his 2014 New Pulp Awards-nominated prose anthology, Warbirds of Mars: Stories of the Fight! Some of Doc’s fantasy pen & ink art was featured in A Life of Ravens: Epic Poetry and Narrative and Lancelot: Poems about the Man and Legend, both by Alex Ness, and in The Crypt of Dracula by Kane Gilmour. Among Doc’s interests are classic illustrations and movie genres, vintage clothes and cars, pulp magazines, and a severe predilection for ‘Doctor Who’ since the age of eight. He lives in a very classic house with a cat.
Visit him at WWW.VAUGHN-MEDIA.COM
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Steve Manke

Old School, And I Love It!

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2013

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Every once in a while I come across a book that is pure genre fun. Being a big fan of classic monster movies, I've been disappointed at the way vampire fiction has devolved in recent years. The target audience appears to have shifted and with it the content and quality of the fiction has degraded. Whatever happened to classic vampire fiction? I want the really old school stuff like Bram Stoker's original novel, Dracula-- or the low budget Hammer Horror films. The current trend in vampire fiction is enough to turn me off the topic altogether.

If you've been feeling like I have, there's great news! Kane Gilmour's, The Crypt of Dracula, is a novela that is just what we've been waiting for. It's the tried and true vampire story that gets your heart pounding and once again brings life to the things that go bump in the night. This is the kind of story Bram Stoker would write if he were still alive and kicking. Very much in the same vein (sorry, it had to be done) as Stoker's original Dracula tale, this is a period story which takes place in Transylvania. A grieving stone mason is hired by a mysterious Count to repair his damaged and neglected castle located outside a remote village populated by troubled, xenophobic farmers who have come to fear the night.

I think you can see where this is headed. The story is true to vampire lore in the classic sense. It goes back to a time when vampires were evil and horrifying; when the concept of a vampire wasn't commonly understood by all who farmed the land. A time when people were superstitious and fearful, suspicious and vengeful.

In short, this is a classic vampire story that does the lore justice just as it does Bram's Stoker's original vision proud. Can Kane Gilmour fix everything that's wrong with vampire fiction in its current form? Sadly, no. But with more books like this, old school vampire fans like myself might yet live to see another sunrise.

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K. Jump

Welcome to the Crypt of Dracula

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2014

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Less a sequel to Bram Stoker's DRACULA than a loose follow-up to the classic Hammer vampire films starring the great Christopher Lee, THE CRYPT OF DRACULA mostly works as a tremendously atmospheric tale of the Lord of Vampires that eschews many of the genre's modern tendencies. If you like your vampires sensitive, remorseful, and attractive, then this is not a book for you. Kane Gilmour's vampires would never fit in with the TWILIGHT crowd. They are vicious, ruthless, and predatory, diabolic monsters with an insatiable appetite for blood and death. As a result, THE CRYPT OF DRACULA achieves a degree of tension and suspense which most modern vampire novels cannot.

Gilmour makes no bones about the sources of his inspiration. He is delightfully indebted to the aforementioned Hammer films, and many of his book's characters are clearly written with actors from those movies in mind for key roles. Like those films, Gilmour's story is rich in atmosphere, and the descriptions of Dracula's castle and the remote Transylvanian countryside around it are delicious. The characters are well developed and generally sympathetic, and more than one of them harbors dark secrets that are not fully revealed until the final battle between good and evil is played out.

The only real weakness of Gilmour's novel is in the conclusion, and unfortunately that is the worst possible moment for a story to fail. Alas, certain plot choices just don't add up. One seemingly minor character reveals a secret of dire proportions that makes one wonder just what he's been up to all along, for instance, and even worse the novel closes out with a "fake" ending of the sort that sets up the next sequel for modern horror films. Of course, Hammer Films rarely, if ever, cheated their fans in such a fashion, and while one often assumed a sequel would be forthcoming to any given vampire film--especially from the Dracula and Frankenstein movies--all the individual films were more or less self-contained, and in any event always closed out with a definitive climax. Gilmour should have followed suit. It's not a bad enough miscalculation to spoil the whole book, but it does keep his tale from being a really first-class vampire novel and the anti-climax that closes the book out does leave the reader with a bad taste in his mouth.

Still, it's hard not to recommend THE CRYPT OF DRACULA. Its strengths outweigh its weaknesses, and is the closest any modern novel has come to duplicating the feel of those wonderful Hammer Dracula films. Despite the disappointing conclusion, Dracula fans should still enjoy Gilmour's novel and I, for one, would gladly read a sequel if one should appear.

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Todd L

Wow! Great follow up to Dracula

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2021

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I recently read Bram Stoker’s Dracula and enjoyed it, but felt something was missing. After reading this I figured out what it was. The battle scenes with Dracula and others were detailed and believable in this story compared to Stoker’s. At the same time the back story and character development were great in this story. It is a fitting sequel to a great original and I hope it isn’t the last in a series. If you like Dracula, this is a must read. If you haven’t read Dracula then that is a must read followed quickly by this one.

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Angela DeWitt

AHHH . . . A TRADITIONAL VAMPYRE READ

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2014

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Finally, a book about Dracula that is an intellectual and fun read.

Not to make light of other "Vampyre" books; however, I enjoy reading more traditional type stories about Vampyres - such as Stoker's "Dracula". There are too many "undead" reads that fail to write about Dracula and vampyres in such a manner as Kane Gilmour has mastered.

From the start, I fell in love with "The Crypt of Dracula" - such frightful and delightfully delicious characters, scenes and theme(s) - - makes you want to cover your head, at least your neck, recheck that all your doors and windows are locked, and yes . . . check in closets and under your bed before you sleep - that is, if you can after reading this novella. (Wicked Grin)

So excited to read more of Gilmour's work - and by the way-thanks so much for the frightmares Mr. Gilmour!

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paddythe bear

Hammer House writes a book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2013

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This book represent what would happen if a Hammer House movie was turned into a book. I thoroughly enjoyed this story, it's what a true Dracula tale should be but "old school" style. It has all the ingredients of a gothic horror, the castle, the ghoulish man servant, the sexy vampire women and of course the brave priest. Not to mention the little village near by with the only inn with rooms to let with a large cross on the full of silent locals drinking and a land lord that suggests you should leave.
Some may dismiss this sort of book as a little cheesy, but weren't the Hammer House films. It is what it is and I liked it a lot and of course the ending has a little twist.
I think you wouldn't pick this book up if it wasn't your cup of tea, so if Dracula is one of your favourite monsters give it a go, it's great

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Adrian

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2020

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So we've all seen dracula films and know the folklore surrounding him and other vampires. Mr Gilmour tells a fresh story using eveything we know and love,( and love to hate) about one of our favourite monsters. This is a worthy sequel to bram stokers novel, and i actually found it more enjoyable. A talented wordsmith, of whom we need to see more.

BlackBrigand

Better than average vampire tale

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2014

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The Crypt of Dracula - Kane Gilmour Kindle Edition

This novel delivers exactly what the author promises in his marathon prologue; a story in the tradition of the Hammer Films, Dracula series from the 1970s. The storyline could almost be a screen play for a film of the Jimmy Sangster era and as such is a good read with all the traditional features of a good vampire horror movie. Dracula is suitably evil and rapacious, his brides are sexy and blood hungry and it even has van Helsing disguised as a village priest.

I enjoyed the story and hope that there will be more in the same vein, (pun intended). My only critism is that whilst the majority of the story is well written and in style with the storyline, at times some of the dialogue and descriptive text slips into the 21st century vernacular and modern US phraseology creeps in. There are a few homophonic errors which are a bit distracting.

Otherwise, a great story well told... look forward to more of the same.

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H. A.

Vampires - Hammer Style

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2013

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This is a great book -one that I really enjoyed reading.The story is quite simple in the classic style of a Hammer horror movie.All the elements of the traditional vampire tale are present.Terrified villages,nasty but faithful guardian of Dracula,sexy and very frightening vampire women,etc,.The tension is maintained right through the narrative as the hero tries desperately to save his friends from the clutches of the vampires.Dracula is portrayed as an urbane host until his true nature is shown(he still remains clever yet sadistic).This book is well worth the price and I will be watching out for more vampire books like this from Kane Gilmour

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M. Marchant

Back to Basics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2013

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A refreshing change to read Dracula how he's supposed to be, now I'm partial to the odd twinkling vampire but to read Dracula as the beast he truly is made me realise how far off the vampire genre we have strayed.

A great, fast read that made my heart pound on more than one occasion and to be honest I'm a little scared after reading this as I have a visit to castle planned this weekend!

You'll love this book but keep your garlic, stakes and holy water close at hand!

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