![]() ![]() Dracula's account begins with him, having tired of life in a crumbling castle hidden in the wilds of Transylvania surrounded both by irritatingly backwards and superstitious peasants and a trio of insufferable vampire brides, deciding to break his centuries of self-imposed exile and reintroduce himself into human society. ![]() The Dracula Tape involves Dracula, several decades after this conflict, deciding to finally address this imbalance - specifically, by hijacking the car of the descendants of the Harkers, his old enemies, and by recording his memoirs of the event in question into their tape recorder. Specifically, it hinges on a fact about the earlier work that is both glaringly obvious and yet easily missed that while the earlier novel uses the diary entries, writings and witness testimony of almost all of the participants and witnesses to the battle between Van Helsing and his allies and the evil Count Dracula in order to provide a full account of what happened, one particular perspective has been notably omitted - that of Count Dracula himself. A 1975 novel by Fred Saberhagen, which offers an alternative perspective on the horror novel Dracula. ![]()
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