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Is Dracula the Un-dead. I got the book for Christmas, I mentioned it in my English Essay, and I've read it through more than a few times. However, now I am so pissed off by the stupidity of the book that I'm writing about it in my journal as a warning to all of you! Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself, let me give you a brief, Wikipedia worthy background story.

The book has been written based off of a few of Bram Stoker's notes for a possible sequel, a project that he scrapped. The writers of the book, one of his descendants and an assisting writer, finished the project that Bram never finished and came up with 'Dracula the Un-Dead', and has been named the only official sequel to Dracula. Unfortunately, that's a title I don't believe it deserves.

It may have been based on Bram's original notes, however due to the amount of change in all of the characters, I can only imagine that his notes were concerning the presence of a character, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, and her connection to Dracula. I also don't believe that Bram would denounce himself as a fraud in his own book, this seems to be the wild adventure of the new writers.

In this book, it moves the date of the original book to coincide with the date of the Jack the Ripper murders in London, and is set 25 years after the original events, so you would expect some change within the characters. However, you wouldn't expect Jonathan to be a wreck of a solicitor, turning to drink because of his wife's ever youthful appearance and insatiable sexual nature. Dr. Seward has become addicted to morphine and here's the worst bit...Abraham Van Helsing willingly becomes a vampire.

I know, right?

Anyway, some mysterious force, who everyone believes to be Dracula, is killing off the heroic band. Seward is run over by a cart trying to save an actor, Basarb, Jonathan nearly has his p***s ripped off and is erected in London on a huge pole. Arthur Holmwood (who has a death wish), Mina Harker (who wants to have Dracula's babies) and Van Helsing (not yet a vampire) remain. Helsing is on the brink of death, and so he's not much use, especially now that he's been accused of being Jack the Ripper. He is visited one night by Dracula, who turns him...

Anyway, briefer version of the storyline. Mina gets turned into a vampire and has sex with Dracula, Arthur kills Van Helsing and dies himself, and it turns out that Quincey is not Jonathan's son, but Dracula's. Elizabeth Bathory is Jack the Ripper and was killing off the band of hunters for revenge, and is eventually killed by Dracula. The book ends with Quincey boarding the Titanic, and Dracula is in the cargo hold.

In otherwords, this book is a load of bull. For your sakes, don't read it.