The Dracula Dossier by James Reese6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Draculaįans will appreciate the nods to well-known works that Stoker wrote supposedly following this confrontation. With Tumblety's malignant conversion, though, the novel turns into a rip-roaring penny dreadful that compels reading to the end. ![]() ) so perfectly pastiches the journal format that initially his story reads as dry and boringly as most private diaries. ![]() The collector pre-arranged this collection chronologically before sending them to a trusted writer. ![]() The ceremony goes horribly awry, resulting in one participant-Francis Tumblety, a patent medicine salesman newly arrived from America-becoming a vessel for the evil Egyptian god Set and applying his surgical skills to the slaughter of Whitechapel prostitutes in order to draw Stoker out for a supernatural showdown. The Dracula Dossier is supposedly composed of a newly revealed collection of Bram Stoker’s journal, letters, and news clippings which obviously is a nod to the Dracula novel’s structure. In 1888, Bram Stoker attends an indoctrination ceremony of the Order of the Golden Dawn, at the behest of Oscar Wilde's mum and a young William Butler Yeats. Read The Dracula Dossier: A Novel of Suspense by Reese, James, lexile & reading level:, (ISBN: 9780061981913). In Reese's scrupulously imagined thriller, told largely through entries from a lost journal kept by the author of Dracula ![]()
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