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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Van Hellsing]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Van Hellsing]] and [[spoiler:Dracula himself!]].
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A sequel to Bram Stoker's gothic horror classic ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', written by Freda Warrington and published in 1997 -- thus predating the "[[Literature/DraculaTheUnDead2009 authorized sequel]]" by Dacre Stoker which, confusingly [[NamesTheSame has the same title]].title. Warrington's book sticks closer to the feel of Bram Stoker's original than the authorized sequel, retaining the format of telling the story through [[ThirdLineSomeWaiting multiple]] [[EpistolaryNovel diary]] [[ScrapbookStory entries]] and trying to RetCon as little of the original {{Canon}} as possible (unlike the authorized sequel which literally retcons the ''entire book'', arguably making it not a sequel at all).
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A sequel to Bram Stoker's gothic horror classic ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', written by Freda Warrington and published in 1997 -- thus predating the '[[Literature/{{DraculaTheUn-Dead}} "[[Literature/DraculaTheUnDead2009 authorized sequel]]' sequel]]" by Dacre Stoker which, confusingly [[NamesTheSame has the same title]]. Warrington's book sticks closer to the feel of Bram Stoker's original than the authorized sequel, retaining the format of telling the story through [[ThirdLineSomeWaiting multiple]] [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis diary]] [[ScrapbookStory entries]] and trying to RetCon as little of the original {{Canon}} as possible (unlike the authorized sequel which literally retcons the ''entire book'', arguably making it not a sequel at all).
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->''Through Lifeblood the legend returns -- a sequel to the Legend of {{Dracula}}''
For the "authorized" ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' sequel by Dacre Stoker, see ''[[Literature/DraculaTheUnDead2009 Dracula the Un-Dead]]''.
A sequel to Bram Stoker's gothic horror classic ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', written by Freda Warrington and published in 1997 -- thus predating the '[[Literature/{{DraculaTheUn-Dead}} authorized sequel]]' by Dacre Stoker which, confusingly [[NamesTheSame has the same title]]. Warrington's book sticks closer to the feel of Bram Stoker's original than the authorized sequel, retaining the format of telling the story through [[ThirdLineSomeWaiting multiple]] [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis diary]] [[ScrapbookStory entries]] and trying to RetCon as little of the original {{Canon}} as possible (unlike the authorized sequel which literally retcons the ''entire book'', arguably making it not a sequel at all).
Seven years after the events of ''Dracula'', the FiveManBand from the original adventure -- minus, of course, the now-deceased Quincey Morris -- revisit Transylvania to reassure themselves that Count Dracula really is dead. Unfortunately, doing so [[NiceJobBreakingItHero wakes up Dracula’s dormant spirit]], [[NotQuiteDead which he managed to anchor to this plane of existence]] [[LivingMacGuffin through the connection he formed to Mina Harker]]. Dracula then takes the opportunity to exact revenge on the Harker family -- Jonathan, Mina and their young son Quincy -- whilst simultaneously trying to regain his body so he can go back to the whole blood-drinking-scourge-of-young-women-everywhere thing. Meanwhile, back in Transylvania, a Professor André Kovacs -- friend and colleague of Abraham Van Hellsing -- has heard Dracula's story and is in search of the legendary Scholomance -- a school run by {{Satan}} himself from which Dracula supposedly learned all his tricks. [[CuriosityKilledTheCast Naturally,]] such reckless curiosity leads him to discover that not even Dracula can lay claim to being the biggest bad out there...
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!!''Dracula the Undead'' provides examples of:
* AcademyOfEvil: The Scholomance.
* BackFromTheDead: Dracula (again).
* BettyAndVeronica: Jonathan and Dracula form a gender-flipped version for Mina, and later Mina and [[spoiler: Elena]] return the favour for Jonathan.
* BittersweetEnding: Even more depressingly than the original.
* CheerfulChild: Quincy is remarkably optimistic for an ill six-year-old who's just been kidnapped and imprisoned by a vampire.
* CrossMeltingAura: Subverted. One of Dracula's new powers is the ability to heat metal, and he tries to use this on a cross Lord Godalming shows him. The cross, however, does not actually melt, and Lord Godalming doesn't even let go.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The sexual subtext of the original becomes, well, text, and the TrueCompanions of the original is broken up and put through all kinds of hell. That's right, Freda Warrington tried to make ''Dracula'' [[UpToEleven darker.]]
* DarkMistress:
** [[spoiler:Kovacs]] is Beherit's.
** [[spoiler:Elena]] wants to become Dracula's.
* DeaderThanDead: Three of the four vampires in this book are killed by being [[spoiler:sent directly through a portal to Hell itself]].
* DeadGuyJunior: Quincy Harker is, as mentioned in Stoker's original, named after Quincy Morris.
* DealWithTheDevil: The Scholomance imparts its knowledge to ten students at once, one of whom has to give himself over to Satan as payment at the end.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: André Kovacs]] for Beherit and [[spoiler: Elena]] for Dracula.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Kovacs]].
* EvilerThanThou: Beherit.
* EvilVersusEvil: Beherit versus Dracula.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Played with. [[spoiler:André Kovacs]] seems friendly enough at first, but later [[spoiler:turns out to be in league with Beherit]]. Also, [[spoiler:Dracula himself]] develops a few friendly streaks towards the end.
* HellGate: The Scholomance.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Van Hellsing]] and [[spoiler:Dracula himself!]].
* IncestSubtext: This book makes drinking blood into an explicitly sexual act -- and also reveals that Dracula made his sister and daughter into vampires -- which presumably involved drinking their... [[FridgeHorror oh.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Van Hellsing]].
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Inverted. Lord Godalming chooses to stop fighting Dracula rather than risk his family.
* LittlestCancerPatient: Quincy is in a near-constant state of being very generically ill.
* LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:Dracula starts to develop positive character traits after falling in love with Mina]].
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:Quincy Harker is quite strongly implied to be Dracula's son and even refers to him as "father" in the end of the novel]].
* MamaBear: When [[spoiler:Elena]] attacks Jonathan, TeamMom Alice Seward leaps across the room and [[NeverMessWithGranny pins her to the wall with a stake]] using her bare hands.
* ManipulativeBastard: Dracula, even moreso than in the original. Beherit manages a bit as well.
* MauveShirt: Miklos.
* MindRape: Dracula, both of the mundane and supernatural variety.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: As a spirit, Dracula can possess living bodies and animate dead ones, but such attempts can be fought off with prayer or, apparently, by cutting yourself.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Even from the original --– apparently, they can now feel love and survive being staked and decapitated so long as the stake wasn't made of wood and/or they'd given someone living a "Baptism of Blood".
%%* OutOfCharacter: See PetTheDog below.
* ParanoiaGambit: The Count plays a couple of times on the fact he could strike anyone at anytime.
* PetTheDog: Dracula [[spoiler:uses his knowledge of generic "medicine" to cure Quincy's generic illness]]. Yes, the same Dracula who murdered Lucy and raped Mina a mere seven years ago.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Of course. It's a vampire novel.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: The tiresomely invincible Dracula/Mina FanPreferredCouple is basically canon in this book.
* PutOnABus: Arthur Holmwood (Lord Godalming) leaves the TrueCompanions because he can't risk his wife and child ending up like Lucy.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Dracula]]. Also [[spoiler: Elena]], but she comes back.
* TheRenfield: Seven in-story years after the {{Trope Namer|s}} turned out to be a subversion on him, the Count finally gets a proper one in [[spoiler:Elena Kovacs]].
* RetCon: While not nearly so much as the "[[InNameOnly authorized]]" sequel, it does change a few points from original canon -- mostly to do with how vampires work. It also seems to assume that Dracula ''literally'' raped Mina where the original only implies ''metaphorical'' rape.
* ScienceIsBad: Beherit claims that all human knowledge was given to them by {{Satan}}.
* SexFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Sort of. Dracula starts developing positive traits after Mina starts letting him feed from her, which is considered an explicitly sexual act]].
* StockholmSyndrome: Mina gets it ''bad'' in this book.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Van Hellsing]]. Although it's a crowbar, not a bullet.
* TeamMom: Alice Seward, Dr. Seward's elderly wife.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Dracula constantly refers to Mina as "beloved".
* {{Tsundere}}: Dracula and Mina for each other.
* TheVamp: [[spoiler:Elena]], eventually. Dracula himself is a male Vamp in this book, appropriately enough.
* VampireVannabe: [[spoiler:Elena]]. So, ''so'' much.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Dracula tries to seduce Mina with immortality for her and Quincy.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Dr. Seward briefly wonders whether they really have a right to kill vampires if the undead can think and feel as a human does.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Warrington tries to portray the Count himself as one, by focusing on the loss of his family and how much it sucks to be undead. YMMV on how well it works, of course, because it's hard to feel even slightly sorry for a guy who commits ''so much'' rape, both of [[MindRape mind]] and body.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Elena]] for Dracula.
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->''Through Lifeblood the legend returns -- a sequel to the Legend of {{Dracula}}''
For the "authorized" ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' sequel by Dacre Stoker, see ''[[Literature/DraculaTheUnDead2009 Dracula the Un-Dead]]''.
A sequel to Bram Stoker's gothic horror classic ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', written by Freda Warrington and published in 1997 -- thus predating the '[[Literature/{{DraculaTheUn-Dead}} authorized sequel]]' by Dacre Stoker which, confusingly [[NamesTheSame has the same title]]. Warrington's book sticks closer to the feel of Bram Stoker's original than the authorized sequel, retaining the format of telling the story through [[ThirdLineSomeWaiting multiple]] [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis diary]] [[ScrapbookStory entries]] and trying to RetCon as little of the original {{Canon}} as possible (unlike the authorized sequel which literally retcons the ''entire book'', arguably making it not a sequel at all).
Seven years after the events of ''Dracula'', the FiveManBand from the original adventure -- minus, of course, the now-deceased Quincey Morris -- revisit Transylvania to reassure themselves that Count Dracula really is dead. Unfortunately, doing so [[NiceJobBreakingItHero wakes up Dracula’s dormant spirit]], [[NotQuiteDead which he managed to anchor to this plane of existence]] [[LivingMacGuffin through the connection he formed to Mina Harker]]. Dracula then takes the opportunity to exact revenge on the Harker family -- Jonathan, Mina and their young son Quincy -- whilst simultaneously trying to regain his body so he can go back to the whole blood-drinking-scourge-of-young-women-everywhere thing. Meanwhile, back in Transylvania, a Professor André Kovacs -- friend and colleague of Abraham Van Hellsing -- has heard Dracula's story and is in search of the legendary Scholomance -- a school run by {{Satan}} himself from which Dracula supposedly learned all his tricks. [[CuriosityKilledTheCast Naturally,]] such reckless curiosity leads him to discover that not even Dracula can lay claim to being the biggest bad out there...
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!!''Dracula the Undead'' provides examples of:
* AcademyOfEvil: The Scholomance.
* BackFromTheDead: Dracula (again).
* BettyAndVeronica: Jonathan and Dracula form a gender-flipped version for Mina, and later Mina and [[spoiler: Elena]] return the favour for Jonathan.
* BittersweetEnding: Even more depressingly than the original.
* CheerfulChild: Quincy is remarkably optimistic for an ill six-year-old who's just been kidnapped and imprisoned by a vampire.
* CrossMeltingAura: Subverted. One of Dracula's new powers is the ability to heat metal, and he tries to use this on a cross Lord Godalming shows him. The cross, however, does not actually melt, and Lord Godalming doesn't even let go.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The sexual subtext of the original becomes, well, text, and the TrueCompanions of the original is broken up and put through all kinds of hell. That's right, Freda Warrington tried to make ''Dracula'' [[UpToEleven darker.]]
* DarkMistress:
** [[spoiler:Kovacs]] is Beherit's.
** [[spoiler:Elena]] wants to become Dracula's.
* DeaderThanDead: Three of the four vampires in this book are killed by being [[spoiler:sent directly through a portal to Hell itself]].
* DeadGuyJunior: Quincy Harker is, as mentioned in Stoker's original, named after Quincy Morris.
* DealWithTheDevil: The Scholomance imparts its knowledge to ten students at once, one of whom has to give himself over to Satan as payment at the end.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: André Kovacs]] for Beherit and [[spoiler: Elena]] for Dracula.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Kovacs]].
* EvilerThanThou: Beherit.
* EvilVersusEvil: Beherit versus Dracula.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Played with. [[spoiler:André Kovacs]] seems friendly enough at first, but later [[spoiler:turns out to be in league with Beherit]]. Also, [[spoiler:Dracula himself]] develops a few friendly streaks towards the end.
* HellGate: The Scholomance.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Van Hellsing]] and [[spoiler:Dracula himself!]].
* IncestSubtext: This book makes drinking blood into an explicitly sexual act -- and also reveals that Dracula made his sister and daughter into vampires -- which presumably involved drinking their... [[FridgeHorror oh.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Van Hellsing]].
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Inverted. Lord Godalming chooses to stop fighting Dracula rather than risk his family.
* LittlestCancerPatient: Quincy is in a near-constant state of being very generically ill.
* LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:Dracula starts to develop positive character traits after falling in love with Mina]].
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: [[spoiler:Quincy Harker is quite strongly implied to be Dracula's son and even refers to him as "father" in the end of the novel]].
* MamaBear: When [[spoiler:Elena]] attacks Jonathan, TeamMom Alice Seward leaps across the room and [[NeverMessWithGranny pins her to the wall with a stake]] using her bare hands.
* ManipulativeBastard: Dracula, even moreso than in the original. Beherit manages a bit as well.
* MauveShirt: Miklos.
* MindRape: Dracula, both of the mundane and supernatural variety.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: As a spirit, Dracula can possess living bodies and animate dead ones, but such attempts can be fought off with prayer or, apparently, by cutting yourself.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Even from the original --– apparently, they can now feel love and survive being staked and decapitated so long as the stake wasn't made of wood and/or they'd given someone living a "Baptism of Blood".
%%* OutOfCharacter: See PetTheDog below.
* ParanoiaGambit: The Count plays a couple of times on the fact he could strike anyone at anytime.
* PetTheDog: Dracula [[spoiler:uses his knowledge of generic "medicine" to cure Quincy's generic illness]]. Yes, the same Dracula who murdered Lucy and raped Mina a mere seven years ago.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Of course. It's a vampire novel.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: The tiresomely invincible Dracula/Mina FanPreferredCouple is basically canon in this book.
* PutOnABus: Arthur Holmwood (Lord Godalming) leaves the TrueCompanions because he can't risk his wife and child ending up like Lucy.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Dracula]]. Also [[spoiler: Elena]], but she comes back.
* TheRenfield: Seven in-story years after the {{Trope Namer|s}} turned out to be a subversion on him, the Count finally gets a proper one in [[spoiler:Elena Kovacs]].
* RetCon: While not nearly so much as the "[[InNameOnly authorized]]" sequel, it does change a few points from original canon -- mostly to do with how vampires work. It also seems to assume that Dracula ''literally'' raped Mina where the original only implies ''metaphorical'' rape.
* ScienceIsBad: Beherit claims that all human knowledge was given to them by {{Satan}}.
* SexFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Sort of. Dracula starts developing positive traits after Mina starts letting him feed from her, which is considered an explicitly sexual act]].
* StockholmSyndrome: Mina gets it ''bad'' in this book.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Van Hellsing]]. Although it's a crowbar, not a bullet.
* TeamMom: Alice Seward, Dr. Seward's elderly wife.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Dracula constantly refers to Mina as "beloved".
* {{Tsundere}}: Dracula and Mina for each other.
* TheVamp: [[spoiler:Elena]], eventually. Dracula himself is a male Vamp in this book, appropriately enough.
* VampireVannabe: [[spoiler:Elena]]. So, ''so'' much.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Dracula tries to seduce Mina with immortality for her and Quincy.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Dr. Seward briefly wonders whether they really have a right to kill vampires if the undead can think and feel as a human does.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Warrington tries to portray the Count himself as one, by focusing on the loss of his family and how much it sucks to be undead. YMMV on how well it works, of course, because it's hard to feel even slightly sorry for a guy who commits ''so much'' rape, both of [[MindRape mind]] and body.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Elena]] for Dracula.
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