The prequel to Dracula inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic
novel Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram
Stoker's-and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them. It is 1868 and a
twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed
only with crucifixes holy water and a rifle he prays to survive a single night the longest
of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed Bram scribbles down the events that led
him here... A sickly child Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents' Dublin home
tended to by his caretaker a young woman named Ellen Crone. When a string of strange deaths
occur in a nearby town Bram and his sister Matilda detect a pattern of bizarre behavior by
Ellen-a mystery that deepens chillingly until Ellen vanishes suddenly from their lives. Years
later Matilda returns from studying in Paris to tell Bram the news that she has seen Ellen-and
that the nightmare they've thought long ended is only beginning.
