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Evil never truly dies . . . and some legends live forever. In Dracula's Child, the dark heart of Bram Stoker's classic is reborn. Capturing the voice, tone, style and characters of the original yet with a modern sensibility this novel is perfect for fans of Dracula and contemporary horror.
It has been some years since Jonathan and Mina Harker survived their ordeal in Transylvania and, vanquishing Count Dracula, returned to England to try andlive ordinarylives.
But shadows linger long in this world of blood feud and superstition - and, the older their son Quincy gets, the deeper the shadows that lengthen at the heart of the Harkers' marriage. Jonathan has turned back to drink; Mina finds herself isolated inside the confines of her own family; Quincy himself struggles to live up to a family of such high renown.
And when a gathering of old friends leads to unexpected tragedy, the very particular wounds in the heart of the Harkers' marriage are about to be exposed...
There is darkness both within the marriage and without - for new evil is arising on the Continent. A naturalist is bringing a new species of bat back to London; two English gentlemen, on their separate tours of the continent, find a strange quixotic love for each other,and stumbleinto a calamity far worse than either has imagined; and the vestiges of something thought long-agoforgotten is, finally, beginning to stir...
About the author
Jonathan Barnes teaches Creative Writing at Kingston and City Lit here in London, and has formerly been published by Gollancz (with The Somnambulist and The Domino Men in 2007 and 2008). He's also the author of various audio originals for Big Finish and Audible, and a third novel, Cannonbridge, which was published by Solaris Books in 2015.
Summary
Evil never truly dies . . . and some legends live forever. In Dracula's Child, the dark heart of Bram Stoker's classic is reborn. Capturing the voice, tone, style and characters of the original yet with a modern sensibility this novel is perfect for fans of Dracula and contemporary horror.
