so these guys more or less just ripped off every other idea that everyone has already done? sounds really lame. and that's very sad since the original book was so amazing. but i should have known something would be amiss if one of the authors actually liked Coppola's movie. that thing (minus Gary Oldman) was terrible; and this new book sounds about the same.

somebody needs to stake this baby in the heart.

we need more real vampire works like this one, vampires are supposed to be killers, not angsty teens

Cyrus, that is a list of things that are NOT in the new book.

BTW, having read the original and seen the Coppola movie,

Does that mean that there's a half-vampire vampire hunter in the book?

Because the absence of that is always something to be very happy about.

You forgot Stuart Townsend. Also I would have taken Winona Ryder over Keannu Reeves anyday. How did her get in that film?

Why does everyone assume vampires are killers? The forsaken people who are born within the dark realms of nature are not always killers, many are just people trying to make it in a world they can't be themselves without being called freaks. They might be your neighbors, your teachers, your co-workers, or even your family maybe one and they never say it to you ever. I have family from the old countries and I have been told stories about people like this and I felt sorry for them, they only want to be happy in a world they are cursed to be different in. The movies and TV made people into monsters who try to do nothing but fit in and make a good life for themselves. I will say tho I love true blood Eric is the coolest dude on there!

To my knowledge, so far, I have only been impressed with what "Moonlight" did with Vampires and what "Sanctuary" on Sci-Fi is doing with them.

This new book then, might be interesting to read.

We shall see.

:) I'm excited! When will it be on shelves?! Coppolas Dracula was awesome!!!!!! I don't care what anyones says, (minus Winona Ryder and the matrix guy)

Let me rephrase that: :) I'm excited! When will it be on shelves?! Coppolas Dracula was awesome (minus Winona Ryder and the matrix guy)!!!!!! I don't care what anyones says!

I find it facinating that for Vampires, the 112th aniversarry you give mediocre sequels.

Why doesn't anyone write more books on the first vampire: Lilith? Or maybe something on the Goddess Kali?

I bought this book over the weekend and have just started it. So far so good.. I'm not ready to recommend it yet, obviously, but I'm really looking forward to geting into it.. Count me among those who are glad there are no sparkly or teen vampires!

Able02,

You do know this is all FICTION, don't you?

Wow, reaching much for content? Christ... What a horrible list.

The format in Dracula was the only time I,ve ever a book like that in dairy form. I read it as teenager and never forgotten it somehow all the movies since then have never given same impression of Dracula himself that I had in my mind The opening scene in Francis Ford copplas version with the boat in Whitby Bay came close after that it was all downhill

Able02 - not sure where you heard the "forsaken people" myth (Buffy, Season 2?). While I'm sure there a kind vampires, just as there are poorly trained werewolves and misunderstood ghosts, you can circle globe and travel all the way back to any ancient culture you like, and you'll find that - pretty much across the board - vampire myths all explore the idea of a supernatural predator that lives only through the consumption of life. It acts as a metaphor and warning for our own greedy natures - ancient people were smart like that. Stoker transplanted the myth to his own sexually repressed Victorian England to contrast an unrestrained "Id" against the "Superego" of English society - because he was smart like that. Sadly, through several transformations, Stoker's unrepentant, unrestrained force of nature became a bad poetry writing, emo-listening coffin of angst and tragic flaws. Maybe this book corrects that course ... or maybe it introduces a Dracula who likes to blog about his feelings and twitter what song he's listening to every ten minutes.

One reason for vampires to be civilized is because there are so many more people who can sharpen stakes. As one who did write a sequel to Dracula, 2 in fact, I do know that once something is in the public domain it is fair game, even for a "Stoker." I wish him well, as we need more non-Twilight vampires to sink our teeth into.

Abe02- you are ignorant. Until the novel Dracula came out, the traditional conception of a vampire was of an unclean, filthy creature that slunk in the earth and reeked of the grave. They were vermin, not romantic. You have seen too many movies aimed at 13-yer olds.

If it does not include the utter extinction and demise of all things vampire, in order to kill off the plethora of garbage that has become so proliferic of late, then what is the use? - kh

I agree with everything on this list except two. Winona Ryder and teenage girls.

1. I don't think Winona Ryder was bad as Mina. She's the only Mina where I can actually remember the name of the actress who played her. Can you, off the top of your head, recall the names of the other women who have played Mina? I didn't think so. Dracula, yes. Mina, only hers.

2. No teenage girls? I'm not asking for Bella Swann here (God, no!) but the fact is the original Dracula novel did have teenage girls. Mina and Lucy weren't even twenty. Remember, this was the Victorian era. You were married off before you were twenty one or you were a spinster for the rest of your life. It's against Dracula's character to not come after young maidens. He's Dracula. That's what Dracula does.

I always figured a Dracula sequel would consist of Dracula coming to retrieve Mina and get his revenge or finding that Mina is carrying Dracula-spawn and or is now a vampire herself despite what the heroes thought in the first novel.

Note that Dacre Stoker (IF that's his real name) couldn't write the book by himself. He needed assistance like some kind of politician or talk-show celebrity. I'd bet he didn't write one word of it. And why aren't we given an annotated version, so we can see what part Bram Stoker actually played in the creation of this alleged sequel?

It's his real name. He's Bram Stoker's great grand nephew.

I'd rather have Ryder over Stuart (can't act) Townsend.

I luv Winona she's great, and generally considered an excellent actress. People need to stop beating up on her. But yes go ahead and keep beating up on the sparkly people, they're pathetic

Love it! Especially the Winona Ryder payout at the end (as fun, that is). I heard she stole the picture last time...

Forget this one and check out Dracula - Asylum. It's a great read.

@Skadi: "And why aren't we given an annotated version, so we can see what part Bram Stoker actually played in the creation of this alleged sequel?"

Check out the afterward in the book. It is there.

@ Able02
Vampires aren't real. They are a product of European folklore made popular by Bram Stokers book "Dracula". Because they aren't real they are made to be whatever the writer of a particular vampire story wants them to be; however, originally, they were quite evil. There' s no such thing as a "good" vampire in the original traditions in the same way that there's no such thing as a "good" orc or a "good" demon. Almost all vampires suck the blood of living people in order to live. They almost always suck their victims dry and the victim is dead; therefore, they are seen as evil. Most writers don't "birth" vampires; usually vampires are created from other vampires by some supernatural blood transfusion. After all, how can something that's dead give birth. I write because I see the use of "kind" or "good" vampires as a perversion of the original vampire traditions.

@Able02 duh.........for those of us living in the real world vampire stories are meant to be taken at face value I like some of the stories but at the end of the day thats all they are stories Bram Stocker took a real persons life history and gave it a fresh twist which is why a lot of people find such stories appealing today

I am a teenager and I hate all of these things as well. I think that There are alot of teens that really enjoy the classics. Twilight ruined it more than any other vampire movie/book in my opinion.