None strove for the humor so evident in the Tape, but I enjoyed reading the ones I was able to find. Saberhagen followed with other novels in which Dracula, usually under a different name, had a variety of adventures. It is a great relief to know that in the next few months I will once again have a copy and can reread this wry, witty tale.
I can only assume that at some point during the last household move it disappeared into a black hole. 28, 2010.Īt one time I had a copy of this marvelous novel, but a recent hunt through all my hundreds of vampire related books came up zero for The Dracula Tape. This book first published in 1975, will soon find a new audience because Tor plans to issue it on Dec. In The Dracula Tape the Transylvanian Count sets the record straight, proving point by point how Bram Stoker had everything completely wrong. SF/Fantasy author Fred Saberhagen was probably the first to rehabilitate Count Dracula and present him as an honorable, misunderstood fellow. Fortunately he had a champion in the person of Fred Saberhagen. And when Raymond T McNally and Radu Florescu linked him to Vlad (the Impaler) Dracul with their book In Search of Dracula his reputation was is shreds.
Bela Lugosi and the Hammer movies did not help his cause. Bram Stoker painted him as the personification of the evil, blood sucking vampire.
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