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* AdaptationalHeroism: Of all people, [[spoiler:Dracula himself, as it is revealed that he actually came to England to track down his distant relative Elizabeth Bathory; the crew of the ''Demeter'' died because of a rare disease, and Dracula only fed on Lucy after arriving in England because he was literally starving as the illness meant that the ''Demeter'' crew couldn't be fed on]].
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* DownerEnding: Yay, the BigBad [[spoiler:Countess Elizabeth Bathory]] was killed! And [[spoiler:Dracula and Mina can finally be together forever!]] Oh wait, it's too bad [[spoiler:the only person who could pull Dracula to safety out of the sunlight isn't inclined to, and Mina committed suicide when she saw him go up in flames]], and even if they survived all that, the ship [[spoiler:Quincey and maybe his parents]] escaped on was the ''Titanic''...
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* DownerEnding: Yay, the BigBad [[spoiler:Countess Elizabeth Bathory]] was killed! And [[spoiler:Dracula and Mina can finally be together forever!]] forever]]! Oh wait, it's too bad [[spoiler:the only person who could pull Dracula to safety out of the sunlight isn't inclined to, and Mina committed suicide when she saw him go up in flames]], and even if they survived all that, the ship [[spoiler:Quincey and maybe his parents]] escaped on was the ''Titanic''...
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Invoked regarding Cotford's conviction that Van Helsing is just a killer, as part of his belief is based on how Van Helsing killed patients because of blood transfusions using incompatible blood types; since nobody knew about blood types before a certain point, Van Helsing was no more negligent than any other doctor who just genuinely didn't know about this particular detail.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The authors repeatedly claim ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' was a smashing success, at one point claiming it "sold faster than it could be printed". The book was actually ''heavily'' criticized for its homoerotic content and depictions of debauchery (even ''after'' five hundred words were deleted without Oscar Wilde's knowledge), to the point the magazine that carried its original novella form recalled every copy of the issue containing it, and didn't become recognized as a classic until well after Wilde's death. ''Dracula the Un-Dead'' also ignores that there were three separate releases of the story (once as a novella, then two separate versions as full-length novels).
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* FreudianExcuse: According to the story, why Elizabeth Bathory was so psycho. Not only was she forced into an arranged marriage with a brutish man, but she was a lesbian who had never had satisfying sex until her aunt came on to her.
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* FreudianExcuse: According to the story, why Elizabeth Bathory was so psycho. Not only was she forced into an arranged marriage with a brutish man, but she was a lesbian who had never had satisfying sex until her aunt came on to her. Plus, when she tried to find a romantic partner closer to her own age, her jealous aunt had Elizabeth's [[InterClassRomance servant girl lover]] accused of theft and hanged out of spite.
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For the Freda Warrington book, see ''Literature/{{Dracula the Undead|1997}}''.
It's 1912, and young Quincey Arthur John Abraham Harker has always wanted to be an actor: the glory, the art, seeing the world. Too bad his father, Jonathan Harker, insists on Quincy following in his footsteps as a lawyer no matter what. In his last desperate attempt to make a name for himself in theater, he stumbles on a failing author by the name of Bram Stoker as Stoker is trying to stage a production of his little-known horror novel about a vampire named {{Dracula}}. Quincey is very surprised to find that characters in the novel suspiciously resemble his parents and some of their friends...
Jack Seward, once a respected doctor but now ruined and a morphine addict, is now hunting vampires who turn out to be {{Psycho Lesbian}}s, with the help of a [[AnonymousBenefactor mysterious "benefactor"]]. He and his allies are still determined to fight an unholy evil, but 25 years after last time, it's not going so well.
Inspector Cotford is a police officer in London who has a promising career until he let UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper slip through his fingers by a hairsbreadth decades before. He has lost all chance for advancement, but never forgot about what his failure cost the world. When mutilated bodies start turning up in the streets of London again, he's back on the killer's trail.
''Dracula the Un-Dead'' is a sequel to Bram Stoker's ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. There are many sequels and adaptations of this classic PublicDomainCharacter, but this novel is unique in that it is the first and only one authorized by the family: it was co-authored by screenwriter Ian Holt and by Dacre Stoker, Bram's great-grand-nephew, partially in hopes of reclaiming the family legacy. In addition to being a straight-up sequel -- to the hunters who put Dracula down in the original book, it looks like he has returned and wants revenge -- ''Dracula the Un-Dead'' also writes in Stoker himself as a character, attempts to elaborate on a number of vague details from the book, explains how several characters met and includes some vampire lore that wasn't in the original story. There's also UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
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!!''Dracula the Un-Dead'' provides examples of:
* AllThereInTheManual: Several parts don't make much sense in the context of the original book, but the Afterword explains the authors wanted to honor both the original and the Hollywood versions that came later. In addition, the Afterword offers a TechnoBabble explanation for vampirism as a [[TheVirus virus]] which stimulates unused portions of the brain to grant PsychicPowers, but the book is set before our modern understanding of diseases and DNA.
* BloodBath: [[TropeMakers Elizabeth Bathory]] is a character. What do you expect?
* CelebrityParadox: Averted, or at least played with. The original novel was published in 1897 and this was set in 1912. In-universe, Bram Stoker heard the story of Dracula from [[spoiler:Van Helsing]], who told him in hopes that publicizing the story would help other people fight vampires. He was disappointed that Stoker got so much wrong. No other characters from the original novel knew it existed simply because, like in real life, it was obscure and little-known for years after publication. Quincey Harker first encounters the book and Stoker himself while Stoker is trying to adapt the book for the stage.
* DownerEnding: Yay, the BigBad [[spoiler:Countess Elizabeth Bathory]] was killed! And [[spoiler:Dracula and Mina can finally be together forever!]] Oh wait, it's too bad [[spoiler:the only person who could pull Dracula to safety out of the sunlight isn't inclined to, and Mina committed suicide when she saw him go up in flames]], and even if they survived all that, the ship [[spoiler:Quincey and maybe his parents]] escaped on was the ''Titanic''...
* FreudianExcuse: According to the story, why Elizabeth Bathory was so psycho. Not only was she forced into an arranged marriage with a brutish man, but she was a lesbian who had never had satisfying sex until her aunt came on to her.
* GenreBlind: Inspector Cotford would have made a great protagonist in a detective or police procedural story. Unfortunately for him, this is horror.
* LesbianVampire: Bathory and friends.
%%* LukeIAmYourFather: This revelation is not as important in this story as it is in most, but it's still pretty important. Extra points for echoing the {{Trope Namer|s}} very closely.
* MeaningfulName: Basarab.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Mostly follows the rules as explained in Bram Stoker's original novel, but there are a lot of differences. [[spoiler: First, sunlight burns vampires. Second, vampires aren't necessarily evil, although it just happens to look like that when they wake up for the first time, hungry and drunk on power]]. Less important to the story but still worth mentioning: a vampire's aversion to holy symbols is dependent on their own belief or lack thereof, and the Afterword alludes to a scientific explanation of vampirism.
* PsychoLesbian: Played straight and very un-subtly.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Dracula himself, of course. In addition, there are also historical figures UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory and Jack the Ripper, as well as a number of brief appearances by minor figures, of which the most important to the story is Inspector Frederick Abberline, one of the police officers who had investigated the Jack the Ripper case in real life.
* {{Retcon}}: many. In the authors' notes at the end, they explain that they also wanted to pay homage to the [[AdaptationExpansion many additions by Hollywood and other authors]] that followed the original. The most notable change is that in this version, unlike Stoker's original, [[spoiler: vampires burn in the sun]]. Other retcons were needed to make the dates match up with Jack the Ripper's activity, and to make Bram Stoker's career last long enough to encounter Quincey as a young man. Many of the {{Ret Con}}s are {{Hand Wave}}d by saying that Bram Stoker took great artistic license with the story he was told, or was told a vague, incomplete story to begin with. Others take advantage of ambiguity or even contradiction in the original story.
* ScienceMarchesOn: In-universe example. In the original novel, Van Helsing ordered that the protagonists give blood transfusions to Lucy after her blood had been drained by Dracula. It was published four years before the discovery of the blood type system, and this book is set about 25 years later, so skeptical characters are now aware of the problem: blood transfusions of the wrong type could easily have killed her without any help from a vampire.
* SequelHook: Many.
** Much is made in the book of the fact that in the original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', Dracula was not killed in the way supposedly required to kill vampires. Well, neither was the vampire in this book. ([[spoiler: none of them were, although what happened to Bathory looks pretty final anyway. But Dracula and Mina both "died" with their hearts intact and their heads attached.]]
** Quincey left England fleeing his family's legacy. [[spoiler: And it looks like his parents did too. Will he reconcile with them? Will he even survive the ''Titanic''?]]
** Who was [[spoiler:Elizabeth Bathory's]] mentor, and why did he hate Dracula so much?
* UnwittingPawn: Cotford. An unfortunate consequence of being GenreBlind or WrongGenreSavvy. Van Helsing's habit of mutilating bodies of people he claims are vampires is well known, so he was supposedly a minor suspect in the Ripper murders. Cotford barks up the wrong tree for much of the book.
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For the Freda Warrington book, see ''Literature/{{Dracula the Undead|1997}}''.
It's 1912, and young Quincey Arthur John Abraham Harker has always wanted to be an actor: the glory, the art, seeing the world. Too bad his father, Jonathan Harker, insists on Quincy following in his footsteps as a lawyer no matter what. In his last desperate attempt to make a name for himself in theater, he stumbles on a failing author by the name of Bram Stoker as Stoker is trying to stage a production of his little-known horror novel about a vampire named {{Dracula}}. Quincey is very surprised to find that characters in the novel suspiciously resemble his parents and some of their friends...
Jack Seward, once a respected doctor but now ruined and a morphine addict, is now hunting vampires who turn out to be {{Psycho Lesbian}}s, with the help of a [[AnonymousBenefactor mysterious "benefactor"]]. He and his allies are still determined to fight an unholy evil, but 25 years after last time, it's not going so well.
Inspector Cotford is a police officer in London who has a promising career until he let UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper slip through his fingers by a hairsbreadth decades before. He has lost all chance for advancement, but never forgot about what his failure cost the world. When mutilated bodies start turning up in the streets of London again, he's back on the killer's trail.
''Dracula the Un-Dead'' is a sequel to Bram Stoker's ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. There are many sequels and adaptations of this classic PublicDomainCharacter, but this novel is unique in that it is the first and only one authorized by the family: it was co-authored by screenwriter Ian Holt and by Dacre Stoker, Bram's great-grand-nephew, partially in hopes of reclaiming the family legacy. In addition to being a straight-up sequel -- to the hunters who put Dracula down in the original book, it looks like he has returned and wants revenge -- ''Dracula the Un-Dead'' also writes in Stoker himself as a character, attempts to elaborate on a number of vague details from the book, explains how several characters met and includes some vampire lore that wasn't in the original story. There's also UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
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!!''Dracula the Un-Dead'' provides examples of:
* AllThereInTheManual: Several parts don't make much sense in the context of the original book, but the Afterword explains the authors wanted to honor both the original and the Hollywood versions that came later. In addition, the Afterword offers a TechnoBabble explanation for vampirism as a [[TheVirus virus]] which stimulates unused portions of the brain to grant PsychicPowers, but the book is set before our modern understanding of diseases and DNA.
* BloodBath: [[TropeMakers Elizabeth Bathory]] is a character. What do you expect?
* CelebrityParadox: Averted, or at least played with. The original novel was published in 1897 and this was set in 1912. In-universe, Bram Stoker heard the story of Dracula from [[spoiler:Van Helsing]], who told him in hopes that publicizing the story would help other people fight vampires. He was disappointed that Stoker got so much wrong. No other characters from the original novel knew it existed simply because, like in real life, it was obscure and little-known for years after publication. Quincey Harker first encounters the book and Stoker himself while Stoker is trying to adapt the book for the stage.
* DownerEnding: Yay, the BigBad [[spoiler:Countess Elizabeth Bathory]] was killed! And [[spoiler:Dracula and Mina can finally be together forever!]] Oh wait, it's too bad [[spoiler:the only person who could pull Dracula to safety out of the sunlight isn't inclined to, and Mina committed suicide when she saw him go up in flames]], and even if they survived all that, the ship [[spoiler:Quincey and maybe his parents]] escaped on was the ''Titanic''...
* FreudianExcuse: According to the story, why Elizabeth Bathory was so psycho. Not only was she forced into an arranged marriage with a brutish man, but she was a lesbian who had never had satisfying sex until her aunt came on to her.
* GenreBlind: Inspector Cotford would have made a great protagonist in a detective or police procedural story. Unfortunately for him, this is horror.
* LesbianVampire: Bathory and friends.
%%* LukeIAmYourFather: This revelation is not as important in this story as it is in most, but it's still pretty important. Extra points for echoing the {{Trope Namer|s}} very closely.
* MeaningfulName: Basarab.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Mostly follows the rules as explained in Bram Stoker's original novel, but there are a lot of differences. [[spoiler: First, sunlight burns vampires. Second, vampires aren't necessarily evil, although it just happens to look like that when they wake up for the first time, hungry and drunk on power]]. Less important to the story but still worth mentioning: a vampire's aversion to holy symbols is dependent on their own belief or lack thereof, and the Afterword alludes to a scientific explanation of vampirism.
* PsychoLesbian: Played straight and very un-subtly.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Dracula himself, of course. In addition, there are also historical figures UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory and Jack the Ripper, as well as a number of brief appearances by minor figures, of which the most important to the story is Inspector Frederick Abberline, one of the police officers who had investigated the Jack the Ripper case in real life.
* {{Retcon}}: many. In the authors' notes at the end, they explain that they also wanted to pay homage to the [[AdaptationExpansion many additions by Hollywood and other authors]] that followed the original. The most notable change is that in this version, unlike Stoker's original, [[spoiler: vampires burn in the sun]]. Other retcons were needed to make the dates match up with Jack the Ripper's activity, and to make Bram Stoker's career last long enough to encounter Quincey as a young man. Many of the {{Ret Con}}s are {{Hand Wave}}d by saying that Bram Stoker took great artistic license with the story he was told, or was told a vague, incomplete story to begin with. Others take advantage of ambiguity or even contradiction in the original story.
* ScienceMarchesOn: In-universe example. In the original novel, Van Helsing ordered that the protagonists give blood transfusions to Lucy after her blood had been drained by Dracula. It was published four years before the discovery of the blood type system, and this book is set about 25 years later, so skeptical characters are now aware of the problem: blood transfusions of the wrong type could easily have killed her without any help from a vampire.
* SequelHook: Many.
** Much is made in the book of the fact that in the original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', Dracula was not killed in the way supposedly required to kill vampires. Well, neither was the vampire in this book. ([[spoiler: none of them were, although what happened to Bathory looks pretty final anyway. But Dracula and Mina both "died" with their hearts intact and their heads attached.]]
** Quincey left England fleeing his family's legacy. [[spoiler: And it looks like his parents did too. Will he reconcile with them? Will he even survive the ''Titanic''?]]
** Who was [[spoiler:Elizabeth Bathory's]] mentor, and why did he hate Dracula so much?
* UnwittingPawn: Cotford. An unfortunate consequence of being GenreBlind or WrongGenreSavvy. Van Helsing's habit of mutilating bodies of people he claims are vampires is well known, so he was supposedly a minor suspect in the Ripper murders. Cotford barks up the wrong tree for much of the book.
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