This novel has that wonderful gothic feel you expected from Bram Stoker. (The Lair of the White Worm was his last book.) HOWEVER....There is a single black character in this story, and he's developed with ever Jim Crow era stereotype imaginable. There is also the constant use of a particularly offensive racial slang word. All this made the book uncomfortable to read.

Being released at the Boston Bookcrossing Meetup, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA

Picked up at May 2017 Boston Meetup

I released this perhaps a week ago. After a few tries of reading it and not getting anywhere, it was clearly not for me.

Planned for release at March 2019 Boston Bookcrossers Meetup.

I claimed this softcover at this afternoon's BookCrossing Meetup at the Porter Square Panera in Cambridge MA. I recall the rather cheesy 1988 film that was loosely based on the book, and thought it'd be fun to read the original.

Later: And... it's not nearly as entertaining as Dracula, from the introduction of the characters to the climactic monster-battle. Just... kind of tedious in the setting-up, and not really that exciting at the climax. I may be spoiled by decades of more recent and more sophisticated monster-stories, but this one just didn't cut it for me.

[There's a TV Tropes page on the film, with some entertaining tidbits.]

I left this book in this marvelous TARDIS-themed Little Free Library on this beautiful day; hope someone enjoys it!

[See other recent releases in MA here.]

*** Released for the 2019 Keep Them Moving release challenge. ***

*** Released for the 2019 Movie release challenge. ***