A gothic war-era novel by James Anthony
Dracula1942
The war devours Europe. Ancient darkness stirs beneath it. Read the first chapters of Dracula 1942 and step into a blood-soaked collision of history, dread, and immortal hunger.
Setting
War-torn Europe
Tone
Gothic dread
Vow
First 2 chapters
The atmosphere
He bared his fangs as a squadron of German Luftwaffe roared overhead.
Dracula awakes from slumber in 1942 to find the Nazis storming across Europe, his brides drenched in dreams of destroying the patriarchal war-sickness of men, and an ancient, cursed relic in the hands of a newborn Polish vampire.
I’m excited to share DRACULA 1942, a 92,000-word adult horror novel blending Dracula’s gothic dread with a bloody sip or two of Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. It’s Nosferatu meets the braided, dual-perspective war tale of Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts by way of the operatic savagery of Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Vampire.
Sample reading
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Even if vampires have no reflection, they find the great mirror that humanity gazes into reflects horror, yes, but also beauty, unrepentant kindness, and the will to carry on.
Chapter One
Lamentations
Out of the darkness, a light. And in that light, a second darkness. Or was it already here? Had the separate pieces of his sanity coalesced back to the center? Had they congealed like blood?
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Can’t Go On
The pale man lifted his head and bit down into his own wrist as if it were ripe fruit. Dark blood gushed out. He drank from the open wound, gargled, and then spit the blood into Jack’s screaming mouth.
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