Covenant with the Vampire (The Diaries of the Family Dracul #1) (4 Cassettes)

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This cilling first title in an exciting new trilogy is a rich and terrifying historical novel set fifty years before the opening of Bram Stocker's "Dracula".

At the castle of Prince Vlad Tsepesh, also known as Dracula, Vlad's great nephew Arkady has recently taken over the job of managing the thriving, busy estate. The ties in the Dracul family are strong and Arkady is honored to care for his beloved, though strange, great-uncle...until he ...
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Overview

This cilling first title in an exciting new trilogy is a rich and terrifying historical novel set fifty years before the opening of Bram Stocker's "Dracula".

At the castle of Prince Vlad Tsepesh, also known as Dracula, Vlad's great nephew Arkady has recently taken over the job of managing the thriving, busy estate. The ties in the Dracul family are strong and Arkady is honored to care for his beloved, though strange, great-uncle...until he begins to realize what is expected of him in his new role--a dilemma too terrible to contemplate. Arkady's newborn son is being groomed to take his place in this ghastly fate; he knows that he must fight Dracula, even if it means death.

Introducing Arkady Tsepesh, a young man who has returned to the Carpathian Mountains to inherit a pact of evil. This is his chilling and unforgettable tale that exposes a family bound by blood and torn by the terrible choices their own evil would demand. The first volume in a trilogy by an author who has written bestsellers under a pseudonym.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Set in Transylvania, Kalogridis's smooth first novel launches a projected vampire trilogy that begins some 50 years before the action of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Like that classic work, this story is told through the diary entries of its major players. Upon the death of his father, Arkady Tsepesh is recalled from London with his pregnant wife to take over the family estate and care for his great-great-uncle-who happens to be the original Vlad the Impaler, now nearly 400 years old. As Vlad's power waned, he made a covenant with the villagers near his castle that he would spare their lives provided that they serve him faithfully. Arkady's father found himself bound to this service, as were all first males descended from Vlad. And now Arkady, too, must see that Vlad is well supplied with nourishing visitors lured from abroad. Kalogridis works hard to tighten suspense, dreams up new lore and here and there, especially in erotic passages, strives for fine writing of the sort that set apart Interview with the Vampire in the purple days of Anne Rice. But though the novel has many original touches, the diary format impedes the narrative momentum. Literary Guild; Doubleday Book Club; Science Fiction Book Club selections. (Oct.)
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In 1845, Arkady Tsepesh and his pregnant wife, Mary, travel from England to his ancestral home in Transylvania on the occasion of his father's death. It is destined that Arkady, as eldest son, will assume his father's duties as aide to his great-uncle, Vlad Dracula. The family's blood ties dictate that Arkady must do his uncle's bidding, but it soon becomes apparent that Arkady's allegiance could destroy his wife and unborn child. Written as a prequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula, this is the first title of a promised trilogy that will continue Vlad's story and ultimately mesh with the classic novel. This debut is a real chiller, erotic and gory enough for any vampire fan, and essential for all admirers of the original. For most public libraries.-Rebecca House Stankowski, Purdue Univ. Calumet Lib., Hammond, Ind.
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Injecting some new blood into the genre of vampire novels, these darkly erotic diaries begin 50 years before Stoker's Dracula, and tell the story of how the family Dracul came under the spell of Prince Vlad Tsepesh.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781561006021
  • Publisher: Brilliance Audio
  • Publication date: 11/28/1994
  • Series: Diaries of the Family Dracul Series, #1
  • Format: Cassette
  • Edition description: Unabridged
  • Product dimensions: 4.34 (w) x 7.10 (h) x 1.73 (d)

Meet the Author

Jeanne Kalogridis has been obsessed with Dracula since childhood and has done extensive research to write The Diaries of the Family Dracul trilogy. She taught English for eight years at the American University in Washington, D.C. She now lives in California.
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