It’s been widely regarded that 2009 is the year of the Vampire, with new books by such luminaries as Guillermo del Toro and Justin Cronin releasing epic trilogies, as well as shows like True Blood and films like Twilight keeping the Vampire myth alive. And in October, the first ever ‘Stoker Family approved’ sequel novel is released - Dracula: The Un-Dead, by Bram Stoker’s Great-Grand Nephew Dacre Stoker and Dracula historian Ian Holt.
But in the world of comic sequels to the classic tale, the world of the Vampire has been quiet of late. That is, until now. From The Pages Of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’: Harker is a new, original graphic novel from AAM/Markosia that continues Bram Stoker’s classic story in comic format, following the lives of the main characters from the novel, six months on from the Count’s grisly death as they continue to try to piece their lives back together again.
Written by Tony Lee (Doctor Who, Spider Man, Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood) and drawn by the art partnership of Peter-Davis Douglas and Neil Antwerpen (Starship Troopers), this is the first ever original graphic novel sequel to gain any sort of endorsement by a member of the Stoker family, as Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt, the writers of Dracula: The Undead have agreed to write one of the two introductions to the story, the other to be written by noted Dracula and Sherlock Holmes historian Leslie S. Klinger, author of the critically acclaimed The New Annotated Dracula.
From The Pages Of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’: Harker is a full color 112 page original graphic novel, available from AAM/Markosia and all good booksellers from October 2009.
Strange to think there are still Stoker heirs around. Vampires themselves, no doubt.
ReplyDeleteI think if we all look back far enough on our family trees we're heirs to somebody famous.
ReplyDeleteLet the Right One In should put the vampire genre to bed. (Or is it, the grave?) The film is an interesting take on the vamp mythos and is just a well made movie. I'm trying to think of the last (good) vampire movie that let them be monstrous, believable and sickening. Fright Night? Ah, too long. My favorite scene in Interview With A Vmpire BTW is after Lestat crawls out of the swamp and looks like death. The rest did nothing for me.
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