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20th November 2008

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Harper resurrects Dracula

07.10.08

Dracula will live again after HarperCollins revealed it will publish a sequel to the gothic classic that will be written by Bram Stoker's great grand nephew.

The Guardian reports that Dracula: The Un-Dead, the original title of Stoker's novel before it was changed by an editor, will be published next October. Written by Dacre Stoker, the book will delve into his ancestor's handwritten notes on the original Dracula novel and draws on excised characters and plot lines that were cut from Stoker's original, first published 111 years ago.

Stoker said that he had not got around to reading his great grand uncle's novel until he went to college. "Word got out about my family connection to the old vamp and I grew tired of being unable to answer people's questions. So I chose to finally break down and read the novel for a research paper on Bram and his possible motivations to write the story," he told the paper.

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