by Paul Michael, Justine Eyre, Elizabeth Kostova
(1593)12 used & new from $19.95(Visit the Best Sellers in Horror list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Ţepeş and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. She worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown and Company, which bought it for US$2 million. The Historian has been described as a combination of genres, including Gothic novel, adventure novel, detective fiction, travelogue, postmodern historical novel, epistolary epic, and historical thriller. Kostova was intent on writing a serious work of literature and saw herself as an inheritor of the Victorian style. Although based in part on Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Historian is not a horror novel, but rather an eerie tale. Read more - Shopping-Enabled Wikipedia on Amazon
In the article: Plot summary | Background and publication | Genre and style | Themes | Reception | Awards | Adaptations
In the article: Plot summary | Background and publication | Genre and style | Themes | Reception | Awards | Adaptations
A teenage girl discovers a letters are addressed to: 'My dear and unfortunate successor.' When the girl confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding his certainty that Dracula--Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century--was still alive.
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