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DRACULAS - A Novel of Terror Kindle Edition
Mortimer Moorecook, retired Wall Street raider, avid collector, is losing his fight against cancer. With weeks to live, a package arrives at the door of his hillside mansion—an artifact he paid millions for…a hominoid skull with elongated teeth, discovered in a farmer’s field in the Romanian countryside. With Shanna, his beautiful research assistant looking on, he sinks the skull’s razor sharp fangs into his neck, and immediately goes into convulsions.
OPENS THE DOOR TO AN ANCIENT EVIL...
A rural hospital. A slow night in the ER. Until Moorecook arrives strapped to a gurney, where he promptly codes and dies.
WHERE DEATH IS JUST THE BEGINNING.
Four well-known horror authors pool their penchants for scares and thrills, and tackle one of the greatest of all legends, with each writer creating a unique character and following them through a vampire outbreak in a secluded hospital.
The goal was simple: write the most intense novel they possibly could.
Which they did.
A Word of Warning:
Within these pages, you will find no black capes, no satin-lined coffins, no brooding heartthrobs who want to talk about your feelings. Forget sunlight and stakes. Throw out your garlic and your crosses. This is the Anti-TWILIGHT.
NOTE: DRACULAS is a full length novel, 80,000 words long. But this ebook is also brimming with an additional 80,000 words of extras and bonuses:
- a clickable table of contents
- a round-robin interview with Strand, Wilson, Crouch, and Kilborn about writing DRACULAS
- deleted scenes
- two alternate endings
- four excerpts from the authors’ other works
- the short story “Serial” by Crouch and Kilborn
- the short story “Cub Scout Gore Feast” by Kilborn and Strand
- the short story “A Sound of Blunder” by Kilborn and Wilson
- author biographies
- comprehensive clickable bibliographies
- an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the writing of DRACULAS, delivered through a collection of over seven hundred emails between the writers as they were brainstorming and writing the book
About the Authors:
F. PAUL WILSON is an award-winning, NY Times bestselling novelist whose work spans horror, adventure, medical thrillers, science fiction, young adult, and virtually everything between. He is best known as the author of THE KEEP and creator of the urban mercenary Repairman Jack.
J.A. KONRATH has sold over three million books worldwide. He's known for the Jack Daniels Thriller series and the Konrath Dark Thriller collective.
JEFF STRAND is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of such novels as PRESSURE, DWELLER, GRAVEROBBERS WANTED (NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY), BENJAMIN'S PARASITE, and THE SINISTER MR. CORPSE. His secret shame is SUCKERS, co-written with J.A. Konrath.
BLAKE CROUCH is the author of four thrillers, DESERT PLACES, LOCKED DOORS, ABANDON, and SNOWBOUND, all published by St. Martin’s Press. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen, THRILLER 2, and other anthologies.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 7, 2010
- File size1.1 MB
Editorial Reviews
From the Author
Books by JA Konrath
JACK DANIELS THRILLERS
#1-Whiskey Sour
#2-Bloody Mary
#3-Rusty Nail
#4-Dirty Martini
#5-Shot Of Tequila
#6-Fuzzy Navel
#7-Cherry Bomb
#8-Dead On My Feet
#9-Serial Killers Uncut (with Blake Crouch)
#10-Shaken
#11-Stirred (with Blake Crouch)
#12-Dying Breath
#13-Everybody Dies
#14-Rum Runner
#15-Last Call
#16-White Russian
#17-Shot Girl
#18-Chaser
#19-Old Fashioned
#20-Bite Force
#21-Jack Rose
#22-Witch Brew
Bonus #2.5-Lady 52 (with Jude Hardin)
Jack Daniels Stories Vol. 1 (Novella Collection)
Jack Daniels Stories Vol. 2 (Novella Collection)
Jack Daniels Stories Vol. 3 (Novella Collection)
Jack Daniels Stories Vol. 4 (Novella Collection)
Banana Hammock (Novella Collection)
THE KONRATH DARK THRILLER COLLECTIVE
#1-The List
#2-Origin
#3-Afraid
#4-Trapped
#5-Endurance
#6-Haunted House
#7-Webcam
#8-Disturb
#9-What Happened To Lori
#10-The Nine
#11-Second Coming
#12-Close Your Eyes
Bonus #4.5-Holes in the Ground (with Iain Rob Wright)
Bonus #5.5-Draculas (with Blake Crouch, Jeff Strand, F. Paul Wilson)
Bonus #6.5-Grandma? (with Talon Konrath)
TIMECASTER
#1-Timecaster
#2-Timecaster Supersymmetry
#3-Timecaster Steampunk
CODENAME: CHANDLER (with Ann Voss Peterson)
#1-Flee
#2-Spree
#3-Three
#4-Hit
#5-Exposed
#6-Naughty
#7-Fix (with F. Paul Wilson)
#8-Rescue
#9-Free
STOP A MURDER PUZZLE BOOKS
#1-How: Puzzles 1-12
#2-Where: Puzzles 13-24
#3-Why: Puzzles 25-36
#4-Who: Puzzles 37-48
#5-When: Puzzles 49-60
#6-Answers
Stop A Murder Complete Cases (Book 1-5)
MISCELLANEOUS
65 Proof - Collected Short Stories
The Globs Of Use-A-Lot 3 (With Dan Maderak)
EROTICA
Writing as Melinda DuChamp
MAKE ME BLUSH series
#1-Kinky Secrets Of Mister Kink
#2-Kinky Secrets Of Witches
#3-Kinky Secrets Of Six & Candy
ALICE series
#1-Kinky Secrets Of Alice In Wonderland
#2-Kinky Secrets Of Alice Through The Looking Glass
#3-Kinky Secrets Of Alice At The Hellfire Club
#4-Kinky Secrets Of Alice Vs. Dracula
#5-Kinky Secrets Of Alice Vs. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
#6-Kinky Secrets Of Alice Vs. Frankenstein
#7-Kinky Secrets Of Alice's Christmas Special
#8-Kinky Secrets Of Alice's New Year Ball
JEZEBEL series
#1-Kinky Secrets Of Jezebel And The Beanstalk
#2-Kinky Secrets Of Puss In Boots
#3-Kinky Secrets Of Goldilocks
SEXPERTS series
#1-The Sexperts - Kinky Grades Of Shay
#2-The Sexperts - Kinky Secrets Of The Pearl Necklace
#3-The Sexperts - Kinky Secrets Of The Alien
Books by Blake Crouch
Luther Kite Series
#1-Desert Places
#2-Locked Doors
#3-Serial Killers Uncut (with JA Konrath)
#4-Stirred (with JA Konrath)
Wayward Pines Series
#1-Pines
#2-Wayward
#3-The Last Town
Standalones
Upgrade
Recursion
Dark Matter
Good Behavior
Pines
Wayward
The Last Town
Run
Abandon
Snowbound
Famous
Eerie (with Jordan Crouch)
Draculas (with JA Konrath, Jeff Strand, & F. Paul Wilson)
Fully Loaded (Short Stories)
Books By Jeff Strand
Novels
Deathless
Autumn Bleeds Into Winter
The Odds
Allison
Clowns Vs. Spiders
My Pretties
Ferocious
Bang Up
Bring Her Back
Sick House
Cyclops Road
Blister
Kumquat
Benjamin's Parasite
Draculas (with JA Konrath, F. Paul Wilson, and Blake Crouch)
Mandibles
Fangboy
Dweller
Pressure
The Haunted Forest Tour (with James A. Moore)
The Sinister Mr. Corpse
How to Rescue a Dead Princess
Out of Whack
Novellas
Twentieth Anniversary Screening
Cold Dead Hands
An Apocalypse of Our Own
Stalking You Now
Kutter
Facial
Disposal
The Severed Nose
Faint of Heart
The Wolf Hunt Series
Wolf Hunt
Wolf Hunt 2
Wolf Hunt 3
The Andrew Mayhem Series
Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary)
Single White Psychopath Seeks Same
Casket For Sale (Only Used Once)
Lost Homicidal Maniac (Answers to "Shirley")
Cemetery Closing (Everything Must Go)
Suckers (with JA Konrath)
Collections
Candy Coated Madness
Everything Has Teeth
Dead Clown Barbecue
Gleefully Macabre Tales
Five Novellas
Young Adult
Elrod McBugle on the Loose
A Bad Day For Voodoo
I Have a Bad Feeling About This
The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever
Stranger Things Have Happened
How You Ruined My Life
Books by F. Paul Wilson
Repairman Jack*
The Tomb
Legacies
Conspiracies
All the Rage
Hosts
The Haunted Air
Scar-Lip Redux (graphic novel)
Gateways
Crisscross
Infernal
Harbingers
Bloodline
By the Sword
Ground Zero
The Last Christmas
Fatal Error
The Dark at the End
Nightworld
Quick Fixes - Tales of Repairman Jack
The Teen Trilogy*
Jack: Secret Histories
Jack: Secret Circles
Jack: Secret Vengeance
The Early Years Trilogy*
Cold City
Dark City
Fear City
The Adversary Cycle*
The Keep
The Tomb
The Touch
Reborn
Reprisal
Signalz
Nightworld
The ICE Trilogy*
Panacea
The God Gene
The Void Protocol
Graphic Novels
The Keep
Scar-Lip Redux
The LaNague Federation
Healer
Wheels within Wheels
An Enemy of the State
Dydeetown World
The Tery
Other Novels
Black Wind*
Sibs*
The Select
Virgin
Implant
Deep as the Marrow
Sims
The Fifth Harmonic*
Midnight Mass
The Duad Novels*
Double Threat
Double Dose
as Nina Abbott
Rx Murder
Rx Mayhem
Novellas
"The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium"*
"Wardenclyffe"*
"Signalz"*
Collaborations
Mirage (with Matthew J. Costello)
Nightkill (with Steven Spruill)
Masque (with Matthew J. Costello)
Draculas (with Crouch, Killborn, Strand)
The Proteus Cure (with Tracy L. Carbone)
A Necessary End (with Sarah Pinborough)
"Fix"* (with J. A. Konrath & Ann V. Peterson)
Three Films and a Play (with Matthew J. Costello)
Faster Than Light - Vols. 1 & 2 (with Matthew J. Costello)
The Nocturnia Chronicles
(with Thomas F. Monteleone)
Definitely Not Kansas
Family Secrets
The Silent Ones
Short Fiction
Soft & Others
Ad Statum Perspicuum
The Barrens & Others
Aftershock & Others
A Little Beige Book of Nondescript Stories
The Christmas Thingy
Quick Fixes - Tales of Repairman Jack*
Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong
The Compendium of Srem*
Ephemerata
Secret Stories*
Other Sandboxes
The Compendium of F - 50 Years of F. Paul Wilson (Vols. 1-3)
Editor
Freak Show
Diagnosis: Terminal
The Hogben Chronicles (with Pierce Watters)
Omnibus Editions
The Complete LaNague
Calling Dr. Death (3 medical thrillers)
Scenes from the Secret History*
Ephemerata
Three Films and a Play (with Matthew J. Costello)
* "The Secret History
About the Author
JACK KILBORN is a pen name of J.A. Konrath, who has written six Jack Daniels thrillers. The seventh, SHAKEN, will be available this October. Kilborn is the author of AFRAID, ENDURANCE, TRAPPED, and SERIAL UNCUT, (written with Blake Crouch) which has been downloaded more than 250,000 times.
JEFF STRAND is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of such novels as PRESSURE, DWELLER, GRAVEROBBERS WANTED (NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY), BENJAMIN'S PARASITE, and THE SINISTER MR. CORPSE. His secret shame is SUCKERS, co-written with J.A. Konrath.
BLAKE CROUCH is the author of four thrillers, DESERT PLACES, LOCKED DOORS, ABANDON, and SNOWBOUND, all published by St. Martin?s Press. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen, THRILLER 2, and other anthologies.
Product details
- ASIN : B0042AMD2M
- Publisher : Joe Konrath
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : September 7, 2010
- Language : English
- File size : 1.1 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 547 pages
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #190 in Occult Horror
- #259 in Occult Fiction
- #25,348 in Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store)
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About the authors
I was born toward the end of the Jurassic Period and raised in New Jersey where I misspent my youth playing with matches, poring over Uncle Scrooge and E.C. comics, reading Lovecraft, Matheson, Bradbury, and Heinlein, listening to Chuck Berry and Alan Freed, and watching Soupy Sales and horror movies. I sold my first story in the Cretaceous Period and have been writing ever since. (Even that dinosaur-killer asteroid couldn't stop me.)
I've written in just about every genre - science fiction, fantasy, horror, young adult, a children's Christmas book (with a monster, of course), medical thrillers, political thrillers, even a religious thriller (long before that DaVinci thing). So far I've got about 55 books and 100 or so short stories under my name in 24 languages.
I guess I'm best known for the Repairman Jack series which ran 23 novels. Jack is out to pasture now, but I may bring him back if the right story comes along.
THE KEEP, THE TOMB, HARBINGERS, BY THE SWORD, and NIGHTWORLD all appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers List. WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS won the first Prometheus Award in 1979; THE TOMB received the Porgie Award from The West Coast Review of Books. My novelette "Aftershock" received the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for short fiction. DYDEETOWN WORLD was on the young adult recommended reading lists of the American Library Association and the New York Public Library, among others (God knows why). I received the prestigious Inkpot Award from San Diego ComiCon and the Pioneer Award from the RT Booklovers Convention. I'm listed in the 50th anniversary edition of Who's Who in America. (That plus $3 will buy you a coffee at Starbuck's.)
My novel THE KEEP was made into a visually striking but otherwise incomprehensible movie (screenplay and direction by Michael Mann) from Paramount in 1983. My original teleplay "Glim-Glim" first aired on Monsters. An adaptation of my short story "Menage a Trois" was part of the pilot for The Hunger series that debuted on Showtime in July 1997.
And then there's the epic saga of the Repairman Jack film. After 20 years in development hell with half a dozen writers and at least a dozen scripts, Beacon Films has decided that "Repairman Jack" might be better suited for TV than theatrical films. (We'll see how that works out.)
I've done a few collaborations too: with Steve Spruill on NIGHTKILL, A NECESSARY END with Sarah Pinborough, THE PROTEUS CURE with Tracy Carbone, and the Nocturnia series with Thomas Moneleone. Back in the 1990s, Matthew J. Costello and I did world design, characters, and story arcs for Sci-Fi Channel's FTL NewsFeed, a daily newscast set 150 years in the future. An FTL NewsFeed was the first program broadcast by the new channel when it launched in September 1992. We took over scripting the Newsfeeds (the equivalent of a 4-1/2 hour movie per year) in 1994 and continued until its cancellation in December 1996.
We did script and design for MATHQUEST WITH ALADDIN (Disney Interactive - 1997) with voices by Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters, and the same for The Interactive DARK HALF for Orion Pictures, based on the Stephen King novel, but this project was orphaned when MGM bought Orion. (It's officially vaporware now.) We did two novels together (MIRAGE and DNA WARS) and even wrote a stageplay, "Syzygy," which opened in St. Augustine, Florida, in March, 2000.
I'm tired of talking about myself, so I'll close by saying that I live and work at the Jersey Shore where I'm usually pounding away on a new novel and haunting eBay for strange clocks and Daddy Warbucks memorabilia. (No, we don't have a cat.)
Joe Konrath has written over twenty novels in the Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels thriller series. They do not have to be read chronologically to be enjoyed, but the order is: Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Shot of Tequila, Fuzzy Navel, Cherry Bomb, Dead On My Feet, Serial Killers Uncut (with Blake Crouch), Shaken, Stirred (with Blake Crouch), Dying Breath, Everybody Dies, Rum Runner, Last Call, White Russian, Shot Girl, Chaser, Old Fashioned, Bite Force, and Witch Brew. More coming soon.
Wow, that's a lot of Jack.
If you like your thrillers on the dark side, check out the Konrath Dark Thriller Collective, which includes the books The List, Origin, Afraid, Trapped, Endurance, Haunted House, Webcam, Disturb, What Happened To Lori, The Nine, Second Coming, and Close Your Eyes.
Joe also wrote the Stop A Murder mystery puzzle series, where you become the sleuth and solve brain teasers to try and catch a killer.
He also wrote the sci-fi trilogy, Timecaster, Timecaster Supersymmetry, and Timecaster Steampunk. Even if you don't think you like sci-fi, give them a try. They feature Joe's well-known characters from his other series, and are insane.
With Ann Voss Peterson he wrote the Codename: Chandler thrillers, including Flee, Spree, Three, Hit, Exposed, Naughty, Fix (with F. Paul Wilson), Rescue, and Free.
And, finally, he writes erotica under the pen name Melinda DuChamp, also with Ann Voss Peterson. Those books are probably too spicy for you, so only the brave and bold should seek them out.
Joe writes a lot. You should probably read everything.
You can visit Joe and sign up for his newsletter at www.JAKonrath.com/mailing-list.php
Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include the New York Times bestseller Dark Matter, and the internationally bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. Crouch also created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. His latest book is Recursion, a sci-fi thriller about memory, and will be published in June 2019. He lives in Colorado.
To learn more about what he is doing, check out his website, www.blakecrouch.com, follow him on Twitter - @blakecrouch1 - or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/blakecrouchauthor
JA Konrath is the author of WHAT HAPPENED TO LORI BOOK 1 and BOOK 2, a gearshift duology meant to take thriller fiction to the next level.
Joe also wrote twelve novels in the Jack Daniels thriller series. They do not have to be read chronologically to be enjoyed, but the order is: Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, Cherry Bomb, Shaken, Stirred, Rum Runner, Last Call, White Russian, and Shot Girl. More coming soon.
Jack Daniels also appears in the novels Dead On My Feet, Dying Breath, Everybody Dies, Shot of Tequila, Flee, Spree, Three, Timecaster Supersymmetry, Banana Hammock, Lady 52, and Serial Killers Uncut. She's also in the novellas Floaters, Burners, Planter's Punch, Babe On Board, Racked, Straight Up, October Dark, Jacked Up!, Beat Down, Cheese Wrestling, Abductions, Watched Too Long, and Babysitting Money, and the collection Jack Daniels Stories.
Wow, that's a lot of Jack.
Other novels include the thrillers Origin, The List, Disturb, Timecaster, Afraid, Trapped, Endurance, Haunted House, Webcam, Grandma?, Holes In The Ground, and Draculas. Other novellas include Fix, Hit, Naughty, Exposed, Rescue, and Wild Night is Calling.
He also writes the Stop A Murder mystery puzzle series, where you become the sleuth and solve brain teasers to try and catch a killer.
And, finally, he writes erotica under the pen name Melinda DuChamp.
Joe writes a lot. You should probably read everything.
You can visit Joe and sign up for his newsletter at www.JAKonrath.com/mailing-list.php
Jeff Strand's bio was funnier when he talked about losing the Bram Stoker Award four times, but he's now a Bram Stoker Award WINNER!
His novels are usually classified as horror, but they're really all over the place, almost always with a great big dose of humor. He's written five young adult novels that all fall into the "really goofy comedy" category.
Several of his books are in development as motion pictures, and he's mostly not allowed to blab any details, which he finds MADDENING.
He currently lives in sunny, warm Duluth, Minnesota with author Bridgett Nelson.
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2011Rating: 4.7 out of 5
A few weeks ago I suffered a serious case of fantasy over-exposure. After opening the next novel on my list, I found myself dreading yet another exploration into world-building and magical powers. So, to relieve my readerly doldrums, I put it down and picked up another book, one that's been hiding in my Kindle since I bought it the day it came out. That book...Draculas, by the combo of Jack Kilborn (aka J.A. Konrath), Blake Crouch, Jeff Strand, and F. Paul Wilson.
I'm glad I saved it, for it was the cure for what ailed me.
Draculas is a wham-bang, smack-em-around, eviscerate-the-enemy, action-packed adventure. It takes place in the boondocks town of Durango, Colorado, where the staple eccentric old rich guy, Mortimer Moorecock, has been delivered a very special package - the skull of an unknown, ancient being; a slice of archeology (complete with a mouthful of dagger teeth) that could possibly, if it proves real, be the missing link between the myth and reality of vampires.
Due to a self-imposed wound involving said artifact, Mortimer is rushed to the hospital. It is there, in Blessed Crucifixion, that the rest of the story unfolds. Regular, everyday people undergo startling changes, becoming blood-driven maniacs, their physical forms changing in virtually a blink of an eye. Bedlam ensues, as those poor survivors are forced to fend for themselves in this incongruously-named, backwoods medical center while murdering, scissor-mouthed freaks - the draculas from the title, though they're nothing like traditional vampires except for the bloodlust - run amok.
Taken at face value, the rest of the book is standard hack-and-slash fare. The text is filled with gore, with people tossed into unbelievable circumstances and responding in some pretty outlandish ways. The body count becomes too high to count by the time the fifth chapter rolls around. In a way, the violence on the page is almost mind-numbing. And I mean this in a good way. A very good way.
The thing is, Draculas is the furthest thing from a serious book. Is it horror? Yes. But more than anything else, this is satire to the extreme. (The authors tell you this right from the dedication: For Bram Stoker, with deepest apologies, it reads.) Every character is a cliché - the skeptical researcher; the lawman obsessed with ultra-powerful weapons; the egotistical small-town doctor; the brave nurse who's been shortchanged; the idiot lumberjack with a heart of gold; the clown with depression issues; the spoiled little girl. However, these clichés are exaggerated to the point of absurdity, which demonstrates a group of authors that 1) don't take themselves too seriously, and 2) are just having fun with the typical horror tropes - making the characters special by amplifying personality traits, in effect flipping truism on its head. In fact, if this book has any fault at all, it's that there are a couple characters that aren't absurd enough. The scenes involving these particulars are the only ones that seem a bit slower than the others - as contradictory as it is to say, in the scope of the story involved they become less real.
But these scenes are few. For the most part, we have page after page of action, of wisecracking dialogue and dismemberment gone awry. And, oddly enough, there's some actual emotion here, as well. Toward the latter stages of the novel, when the poop really starts hitting the fan, there are a couple extremely well-written and affecting scenes. It was strange to find, especially in a work of fiction this ridiculous and over-the-top, but it was most certainly appreciated. It takes a ton of talent to do this, talent these four writers obviously possess.
The writing is very smooth and virtually seamless, to the point that the only way you'd know this was written by more than a single author is by reading the multiple names in the title. Though I'm sure each of them have a style all their own (this is the first work I've read by any of them), here they've managed to meld their different approaches to the craft into a cohesive whole. Again, that takes talent.
Draculas is an exceedingly fun read. It might not be for everyone, what with the amount of blood spilled within its pages, but for those who want to laugh, cringe, and even feel their heart skip a beat more than once, this is the book for you. It's a grindhouse adventure that doesn't take its foot off the pedal until the end, which in itself is hilarious in its irony and rewriting of myth. But more than anything it's a good time, no matter how irreverent to the source material the authors may be - in an affectionate way, of course.
I had a blast reading it. You will, too.
Plot - 10
Characters - 8
Voice - 10
Execution - 9
Personal Enjoyment - 10
Overall - 47/50 (4.7/5)
- Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2011Back on October 19th, 2010, I spotlighted the release of Draculas written by J.A. Conrath, Blake Crouch, Jeff Strand, and F. Paul Wilson on my blog (LL Book Review). The concept was the four of them would write a "real" vampire story together, and they wanted to release it in time for Halloween last year. Since no traditional publisher would ever be able to get a book out in a month, the foursome published it on Kindle.
To get the word out, they put their fan base and mailing lists together, sending out advanced ecopies in exchange for reviews posted to Amazon on the day of the release. And it worked! The book spiked to #1 on the Horror Kindle Bestsellers the day of its release, and garnered over 100 reviews the first day. On November 6th, a paperback edition of the book was released through CreateSpace.
I downloaded it myself a few weeks ago, having not read a good gory story in ages. And gory it is! It begins with a headline about an odd skull that's been dug up by a farmer in Transylvania. The skull is human but has razor-like fangs protruding from its mouth. Mortimer Moorecook, a wealthy retired American businessman, purchases the skull for a hefty sum and upon its arrival, he sinks the skull's teeth into his neck.
He's rushed to the hospital and just as he enters the ER, those razor sharp teeth begin to burst through his jaws and mouth and long talons jut out of his fingers. All hell breaks loose as the blood thirsty zombie-like vampire Moorecook attacks the hospital staff and other patients in the ER, causing them to quickly change as well. Soon, an army of "draculas" is surging through the hospital hungrily in search of blood.
Just as the WORD OF WARNING suggests in the description: Within these pages, you will find no black capes, no satin-lined coffins, no brooding heartthrobs who want to talk about your feelings. Forget sunlight and stakes. Throw out your garlic and your crosses. This is the Anti-TWILIGHT.
But the story is not without its classic homage to other horror classics we know and love, and that scare us half to death. One of the draculas is Benny the Clown, a birthday performer in the ER because the birthday girl's braces are stuck in the flesh of his hand. A horror in and of itself, but image a vampire clown! His squeaky shoes coming down the hospital hallway will send chills up your spine. Oh, and the little girl with the braces? She gets changed into a little demon vampire too, in search of "red candy."
Our heroes and heroins are quickly introduced by way of three couples. We have Moorecook's caretaker Nurse Jenny and her ex-husband Randall, a chainsaw wielding lumberjack whose also a patient in the hospital because of a self inflicted chainsaw wound. Picture a big lumberjack chasing vampires through a hospital in his open hospital gown - with his chainsaw - and you've got chapters of laugh out loud scenes, like this quote from Randall when he and Jenny set out to save the children in the pediatrics ward:
"Of course it's for you. But it's also so those little diseased children don't become dracula snacks. We need to get them safe so they can be sick and die in peace."
Then there's Shanna, Moorecook's assistant, and her gun obsessed cop boyfriend named Clay. Clay fights back with a duffel bag full of souped up guns, including one special gun he calls Alice. Lastly, there's a minister and his wife, whose pregnant and about to give birth to their first child.
Much of the story is scene after scene of Jenny and Randall trying to save the children, the minister trying to save is wife and child, and Clay trying to save Shanna, all while having to defend themselves from the growing herd of blood thirsty monsters. If you don't like blood and gore, then do NOT read this book. It's full of it. But you have to appreciate the over-the-top scenes that will have you either smiling, raising your eyebrows and shaking your haed, or flipping the pages to find out what the four authors did next. It's definitely a fun read that wasn't meant to be taken too seriously. Heck, even the dedication was to Bram Stoker with apologies.
The Kindle Edition is only 47%, so it's a quick read. The rest of the book contains sneak peeks at the authors other upcoming work and samples. There's also a collection of "behind the scenes" emails between the authors which gives an awesome look into how they collaborated and wrote this together. So, it's half book and half "making of" material. Just like the extras you find on a DVD, this electronic version has the same type of pluses.
Kudos to these guys for jumping on the self-publishing wagon and taking it to a new level! A Draculas 2 is coming soon and I can't wait to see what's in store!
- Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2025Format: KindleVerified PurchaseI got this book as a recommendation from Reddit for a horror book that dives right in, and this book absolutely hit the spot. Vampires take over a hospital in the first 20 pages, and we re off to a spectacular good time.
Great descriptions, very vivid to where I got uneasy dreams, and overall a good time. Would recommend for a fast fun read
Top reviews from other countries
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FrankyReviewed in Germany on November 1, 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars Zombie-Horror nicht ohne Komik
Packende Blutsauger/Horror-Story über den Überlebenskampf einer Hand voll nicht infizierter inmitten eines Dracula-Outbreaks in einem amerikanischen Provinzkrankenhaus. Die selbstironische Beschreibung der einzelnen Charaktere und eine gewisse Situationskomik bringt einen dem Splatter- Genres zum Trotz dennoch zum Lachen.
Keine Sekunde langweilig-
- Dark Booksmith ReviewsReviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, gory, fast-paced horror
Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseDraculas is a bullet speed horror novel co-authored by Blake Crouch, J.A. Konrath (writing as Jack Kilborn), Jeff Strand, and F. Paul Wilson. This collaboration brings together four authors to create one gory, and fast-paced story.
It all starts in a rural hospital where a vampire outbreak erupts, throwing the everyone into a chaotic fight for survival. The book is unapologetically, with no room for slow buildups—it's all about immediate action and escalating terror. It leaps off the page at you.
If you're in the mood for a horror novel that doesn't hold back, Draculas is a thrilling choice. I really enjoyed this gory, fast-paced horror that doesn't take itself too seriously. It’s a wild, bloody ride.
Rated 5/5
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- robyn and sophReviewed in Australia on June 30, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this!
What a fantastic read! I love this genre and this was one heck of a ride. Highly recommend if you like the bejesus scared out of you ;)
Warning though...this is NOT Twilght and these vampires are not Robert Pattinson. They do not sparkle, they are not brooding and sensitive. They eat you. In gory detail. With much relish. So avoid if you have a squeamish tummy :)
- Misfit MaliceReviewed in Canada on November 13, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseNon-stop action! A real page turner, that collaboration with the five authors is definitely a win! I wish there were a sequel, as it was kind of short (it's only half of the book).
- Leslie BrionesReviewed in Japan on July 11, 2015
2.0 out of 5 stars Too Action Packed, Not Enough Depth
I've always been a big fan of Kilborn and have read a majority of his horror books and loved it. This one fell short of my expectations. It was interesting in the beginning, but became repetitive with the running away from the vampires scene in the end.
Most of the action took place in the hospital and it felt more like an action movie than a horror one. The so called vampires weren't truly vampires, but felt more like zombies. There was a lot of running, screaming, transforming into vampires, blood and guts. If you're into those, there's plenty in this book. Be warned, nothing really spine tingling horror though. It was just ok, but I prefer their other books. I would have liked it better if the authors gave more depth into the backstory and history of the skull unearthed. It would be more interesting if we knew more about the origins of the first vampire.
There's no definite ending. It looks like there's going to be sequel so it left me hanging in the end. The novel is only half of the e-book and the rest are short previews of the authors' short stories. Also included are email messages between authors as they planned their writing. Interaction was interesting and amusing, I probably found it more interesting than the actual story.
Rating - 2.5 stars