The House Of Dracula (1987)
Mar 24, 2007 10:15:44 GMT -5
Post by Gloomy Sundae on Mar 24, 2007 10:15:44 GMT -5
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The House Of Dracula (William Kimber, 1987)
ionicus
Draculain Genealogical Table
Introduction
Caroline
Marikova
Karl
Gilbert
Louis
Here's Greg Cox on The House Of Dracula from The Transylvanian Library: A Consumers Guide To Vampire Fiction (Borga Press, 1993)
"If The Monster Club reads like Charles Addams with an English accent ("You know, Mother, that's as fine a jug of AB as you've ever served up ..."), his two Dracula books take on the more ambitious task of elucidating the Impaler's family tree. Seems that the Count had several children by his three vampire brides ..., producing a modern generation of glamorous, amoral demon princes and princesses whose individual adventures Chetwynd-Hayes dutifully chronicles, with varying degrees of seriousness. While there's nothing here as overtly comic asThe Monster Club's The Werewolf And The Vampire (in which the titular couple are done in by a nasty little boy who has read too many horror comics), Marikova and Karl suffer from an uneasy mixture of fear and laughter, as well as a strain of misogyny that runs through much of Chetwynd-Hayes' work. Tales like Gilbert, on the other hand, about the ambiguous relationship between a gruff military man and a diffident boy vampire, strike some genuinely eerie chords.
Idiosyncratic and off-putting, Chetwynd-Hayes' world of monsters is probably something of an acquired taste ..."
ionicus
Draculain Genealogical Table
Introduction
Caroline
Marikova
Karl
Gilbert
Louis
Here's Greg Cox on The House Of Dracula from The Transylvanian Library: A Consumers Guide To Vampire Fiction (Borga Press, 1993)
"If The Monster Club reads like Charles Addams with an English accent ("You know, Mother, that's as fine a jug of AB as you've ever served up ..."), his two Dracula books take on the more ambitious task of elucidating the Impaler's family tree. Seems that the Count had several children by his three vampire brides ..., producing a modern generation of glamorous, amoral demon princes and princesses whose individual adventures Chetwynd-Hayes dutifully chronicles, with varying degrees of seriousness. While there's nothing here as overtly comic asThe Monster Club's The Werewolf And The Vampire (in which the titular couple are done in by a nasty little boy who has read too many horror comics), Marikova and Karl suffer from an uneasy mixture of fear and laughter, as well as a strain of misogyny that runs through much of Chetwynd-Hayes' work. Tales like Gilbert, on the other hand, about the ambiguous relationship between a gruff military man and a diffident boy vampire, strike some genuinely eerie chords.
Idiosyncratic and off-putting, Chetwynd-Hayes' world of monsters is probably something of an acquired taste ..."