![]() He enjoys the blood of Lucy and Mina for erotic, not nutritive, purposes, and both are more than willing. According to Dracula's testimony, he never forces himself upon anyone and relies on animal blood as his primary nourishment. Ignorant human foes, led by the fanatical vampire-hunter Van Helsing, cause Lucy's death by incompatible blood transfusions (Dracula makes her a vampire only to give her a chance at life) and foil the Count's attempt at a peaceful life in England. While adhering to the “facts” as recorded by Stoker (with the single exception of the date of Mina's pregnancy - and the broadminded reader might accept a vampirically-influenced thirteen-month gestation to reconcile this inconsistency), Saberhagen reinterprets them to show Count Dracula as the hero of the tale. Intent upon vindicating himself to the family of the woman he loves, as well as to the human world in general, the Count exposes the distortions in the published account of his 1890 move from Transylvania to England. In the first serious novel to present a vampire's story from his or her own point of view, Count Dracula retells the events of Stoker's book on the tape recorder of a car belonging to a descendant of Jonathan and Mina Harker. The Dracula Tape, by Fred Saberhagen (Warner, 1975):Īn “interview” predating by a year the self-revelation of Rice's Louis. ![]()
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