The Mammoth Book of Dracula (Mammoth Books 334)

How will the King of Vampires adapt to the social and technological changes brought by the twenty-first century? Could the Count's condition be cured by modern medicine? How does the mythology perpetuated by literature and movies affect the existence of a real bloodsucker? What if Dracula found himself ruler of a world controlled by vampires? Or perhaps political and ecological catastrophe will result in the Count's final destruction? This tribute to the world's greatest vampire collects together more than 200,000 words of Dracula fiction by masters of dark fantasy such as: Hugh B. Cave, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Basil Copper, John Gordon, Brian Hodge, Nancy Holder, Nancy Kilpatrick, Roberta Lannes, Thomas Ligotti, Paul J. McAuley, Nicholas Royle, Guy N. Smith and many more. It also includes a brand new story from Charlaine Harris.

Amazon.com Review

With his 500-year lifetime so far, and centuries yet ahead, the character of Dracula has an ever-unfolding biography, to which this 100th-anniversary tribute contributes 33 stories (only 6 of which have been previously published). Dracula visits, in these pages, such locales as the Côte d'Azur, the wilds of Oregon, the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler, communist Eastern Europe, Rome at the dawn of the 21st century (a chilling tale in which he is forced to imitate the Messiah), and the ruins of post-apocalyptic New Jersey. He encounters Bettie Page, Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, Lou Reed, and Francis Ford Coppola (with the entire cast and crew of Apocalypse Now, in a hilarious spoof). The authors include such contemporary masters as Kim Newman, Nicholas Royle, Terry Lamsley, Joel Lane, Brian Stableford, and Ramsey Campbell. The book also has a foreword by Bram Stoker's great-nephew, and includes the never-before-published prologue to Stoker's theatrical version of Dracula.

From Booklist

The first sentence of editor Jones' introduction probably speaks for us all: "Do we really need another collection of vampire stories?" Since 1997 is the centenary of Bram Stoker's Dracula in influence and market share, the indisputable king of horror--we will get at least this one, needed or not. It differs from other bloodsucker compendia by offering 33 stories, all but 7 brand-new, that project Stoker's creations--Jonathan and Mina Harker, Renfield, and the novel's other personae besides the undead count--forward in spirit from 1890s London through successive decades to today and on into the future (F. Paul Wilson's volume closer is a variation on Richard Matheson's oft-filmed I Am Legend [1954], about a future L.A. overrun by vampires). Contributors include horror hands living and dead, most notably Stoker himself in the previously unpublished prologue to the stage Dracula he cobbled together to ensure his dramatic copyright. Ray Olson

About the Author

Stephen Jones is one of Britain's most acclaimed horror anthologists, and winner of three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards, and three International Horror Guild Awards. His other anthologies include Zombie Apocalypse!, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men. He lives in London.

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