At this point, Newman’s narrative departs from Stoker’s: Dracula kills Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris he seduces Queen Victoria and becomes Prince Consort a world of vampires flocks to England to make a stab at (or to take a bite at) an openly vampiric life. As the forces of light attempt to track down Dracula, he turns his attention to Mina Harker. The concept for this book, then, had an automatic appeal: Dracula had arrived in England he seduced and turned Lucy Westenra who is dispatched by the forces of light comprising Arthur Holmwood, John Seward and Quincey Morris. Buffy’s Angel and werewolves may be a tortured soul trapped in a bestial form struggling to contain their animal appetites (which has its own appeal) but a real true dyed-in-the-wool vampire revels in and relishes their evil. Sincerely, Tinkerbell”) but full blown raging bloodlust sensual sexual visceral vampires. Not the sparkly, fairy, effete version populating Meyer’s asinine attempts at fiction (“Dear Dracula, do you remember that one night seventeen years ago? Well, we need to talk.
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