Dracula (GN)

“I hope this adaptation will introduce new readers to Stoker’s great novel.”—Gary Reed

“It was a treat to draw this book. I’m really glad I got the chance to take a stab at Dracula.”
—Becky Cloonan

When Englishman, Jonathan Harker is sent to Transylvania to visit his client, the mysterious nobleman Count Dracula, he uncovers the terrifying secret of his host. Dracula is a vampire, an immortal creature who feeds off of the blood of the living. And Dracula is moving to England in search of fresh victims to satisfy his bloodlust. At the top of his list is Harker’s own fiancée, the beautiful Mina Murray. Suddenly Harker finds himself in a race against time to stop Dracula before it's too late. But how do you kill a monster that is already dead?

Set an a world of innocence threatened by unspeakable horror, this is an all-new-suspense-filled graphic novel adaptation of the benchmark horror novel.

ABRAHAM “BRAM” STOKER (1847-1912) was such a sickly child that he could hardly even stand on his own two feet until he was seven years old. He made up for this early weakness, however, and became the champion athlete of his year at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was at university. As with many sickly children, he had plenty of time to read and developed an abiding passion for literature.

GARY REED was the publisher of Caliber Press, a specialty publisher of comics and books that released over 1500 issues in the 1990s. In addition to serving as president of Caliber, he was also publisher of Stabur Graphics and vice president of McFarlane Toys during their inaugural launch. Gary has written over 200 comics and books including Baker Street, Renfield, Saint Germain, and Raven Chronicles. Gary also wrote the Puffin Graphics adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

BECKY CLOONAN was born in 1980, in Pisa, Italy. She attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, majoring in animation. She left after three years to pursue a career in comics. Her best known works, both written by Brian Wood, include the graphic novel Jennie One and the critically acclaimed twelve-issue series Demo, which Entertainment Weekly praised as “touching” and Variety called “more human than mainstream comics dare to be.” She also contributes to Meathaus and Flight anthologies.