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Post by dem bones on Mar 10, 2009 20:19:38 GMT
'Victor Samuels' (Victor Banis) - The Vampire Women (Popular Library, 1973)  Jeff Jones
Vampires? Ghostly women transformed into wolves? Young scientist John Hamilton and his lovely wife laughed at the wild rumors. They had nothing to fear at storm-shrouded Castle Dracula - until they discovered the deathless corpse of Count Dracula himself and unleashed a nightmare of unimagined depravity. From that ghastly moment they were trapped in the inhuman spell of the fiendish Count, and only a taste of their blood could release them - into screaming Hell!
GORGED ON AN ORGY OF BLOOD Evidently the guy who wrote the above was so numbed by the experience of reading The Vampire Women he decided to provide a blurb for an entirely different book, as you sure won't find much by way of orgies of any description in Mr. Samuels' somewhat less than riveting read. And as for "a nightmare of unimagined depravity ...." Told in diary form from the perspective of an impossibly innocent woman (never did quite catch her name) as she accompanies her non-mad scientist other half ("Dear John. Surely the sweetest husband in the world") and frightfully jolly teenage daughter, Carolyn, on a journey through the Borga Pass. Apart from being a rather pointless, diluted retread of Stoker, there's nothing to distinguish The Vampire Women beyond the fact that it is so undistinguished, possibly the least necessary vampire novel ever written. As mentioned before, one of the oddest bits is that the scientist and his ladies all discuss the Dracula legend as they retrace Jonathan Harker's journey to the castle, yet they never suspect that the sinister old count they're introduced to could possibly be behind the latest vampire attacks. After all, he's adopted the cunning ploy of spelling his name 'Drakula'. God, but the undead are fiendish bastards. Highly recommended, though (gotta love that blurb).
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Post by andydecker on Mar 11, 2009 11:19:08 GMT
Here is the german edition of this book. I have read it, but have only a hazy recollection of it borrowing a lot from Stoker´s original. I just took a look at the end, and it is hilarious. Our hero throws (!) a stake at Drakula and it penetrates his black heart.  Not bad for a scienctist. Not even Buffy could do it with a thrown stake. What a guy Typical cover of the time. Not even close to the beautiful Jones. Title is "Guests of Drakula" Btw - is there any interesting novel about Dracula´s woman out there? |
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Not bad for a scienctist. Not even Buffy could do it with a thrown stake. What a guy 