18 books like Dracula, the vampire play in three acts

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The secret life of Laszlo, Count Dracula Roderick Anscombe · 1989 · ★ 3.6 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Moderate In his mesmerizing fictional debut, psychiatrist Roderick Anscombe takes readers into the fevered mind of Count Dracula the man - aristocrat, doctor, and helpless killer of young women. There are no vampires in this stunningly erotic reinvention of the classic myth, only tormented human beings. Tortured by his own perverse desires, the distinguished Dr. Dracula is drawn to posses and destroy… Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, Vampires

In search of Dracula Raymond T. McNally · 1972 · ★ 3.9 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The true story behind the legend of Dracula - a biography of Prince Vlad of Transylvania, better known as Vlad the Impaler. This revised edition now includes entries from Bram Stoker's recently discovered diaries, the amazing tale of Nicolae Ceausescu's attempt to make Vlad a national hero, and an examination of recent adaptations in fiction, stage and screen. Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, Vampires

Anno Dracula Kim Newman · 1992 · ★ 3.9 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Londres 1888. Depuis que Dracula a épousé la reine Victoria, la terreur règne sur la capitale. Sous l'influence du sulfureux comte, les citoyens sont de plus en plus nombreux à rejoindre les rangs des vampires, toujours plus puissants, et il ne fait pas bon être simple mortel. Mais la riposte ne se fait pas attendre. Dans les sinistres ruelles de Whitechapel, des prostituées vampires se font… Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, Vampires

Dracula Cha Cha Cha Kim Newman · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Written by award-winning novelist Kim Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional 40,000 word never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series, Dracula Cha Cha Cha.Rome. 1959. Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda - his sixth wife. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles… Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, Vampires

Geography and Plays Gertrude Stein · 1922 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging The Geography and Plays is a collection of Gertrude Stein’s. This edition makes it possible for students and other devotees of Stein to see the developing strategies of one of the acknowledged giants of literary modernism, whose pathbreaking departures in literary style have recently been assigned still greater importance in light of new theories about women’s writing. My brother had been at some… Shares: American drama, Drama

Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula Loren D. Estleman · 1978 · ★ 3.4 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The year is 1890. A ship is discovered adrift off the English coast, its crew missing, its murdered captain lashed to the wheel, and its only passenger is a sinister black dog. This impenetrable mystery is clearly a case for the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, but for the first time in his illustrious career the great detective is baffled. Clearly the crew have been murdered and dumped overboard,… Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, Vampires

Bram Stoker's Dracula omnibus Bram Stoker · 1897 · ★ 4.0 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Drácula parte de la existencia de Vlad Tepes, un personaje histórico situado en la Rumania del siglo XV, y conocido por su heroicidad contra la invasión otomana, pero también por su crueldad. A partir de esta historia y de no pocas leyendas acerca de él, Bram Stoker escribe esta magistral novela en forma de diarios y cartas que los personajes principales van intercambiándose. Una obra… Shares: Count Dracula, Dracula, Vampires

Dracula Jim Pipe · 1995 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with English solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Revealing his true nature as a vampire, Dracula moves to England and plagues the… Shares: Count Dracula, Vampires

Twelve angry men Reginald Rose · 1955 · ★ 4.5 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Moderate A 'guilty' verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. The conflict which follows is fierce and passionate, cutting straight to the heart of the issues of civil liberties and social justice. This landmark play remains as intriguing and… Shares: American drama, Drama

Brighton Beach memoirs Neil Simon · 1743 · ★ 3.9 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Demanding A comedy built around the Jerome family during the Depression and focusing on fifteen-year-old, Eugene, preoccupied with sex and the Yankees. Shares: American drama, Drama

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares: Drama

Electra Sophocles · 1588 · ★ 3.7 · 83p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Electra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, it recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. Shares: American drama, Drama

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee · 1962 · ★ 3.4 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in… Shares: American drama, Drama

A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller · 1955 · ★ 3.7 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Moderate In A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller explores the intersection between one man's self-delusion and the brutal trajectory of fate. Eddie Carbone is a Brooklyn longshoreman, a hard-working man whose life has been soothingly predictable. He hasn't counted on the arrival of two of his wife's relatives, illegal immigrants from Italy; nor has he recognized his true feelings for his beautiful niece,… Shares: American drama, Drama

The Vagina Monologues V (formerly Eve Ensler) · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues. I talked with over two hundred women. I talked to old women, young women, married women, single women, lesbians, college professors, actors, corporate… Shares: American drama, Drama

Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller · 1940 · ★ 3.6 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The blood of Willy Lohman flows in all of us. The story of the salesman who wanted more for his sons than he knew how to get, who harmed them through his well-meaning dreams but atoned with his life, is at least in part the story of all of us. That is why it is one of the most overwhelming successes of the modern American theatre. --back cover Also contained in: Arthur Miller's Collected… Shares: American drama, Drama

Let the right one in John Ajvide Lindqvist · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Twelve-year-old Oskar is obsessed by the murder that's taken place in his neighborhood. Then he meets the new girl from next door. She's a bit weird, though. And she only comes out at night--Publisher's description. Shares: Vampires, Drama

The blue bird Maurice Maeterlinck · 1909 · ★ 3.5 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Challenging A brother and sister search for happiness. Shares: Drama

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