Review: Dracula (Graphic Revolve) by Michael Burgan & Bram Stoker

Title: Dracula

Series: Stand-Alone

Author: Michael Burgan, Bram Stoker

Genre: Graphic Novel, Horror

Publication Date: April 24th 2008 by Stone Arch Books

Format: Hardcover

Source: Library

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On a trip to Transylvania, Jonathan Harker stays at an eerie castle owned by Count Dracula. When strange things start to happen, and the count escapes to London, Harker realizes that he and his friends are in grave danger.

I really wanted to read a good horror graphic novel for the fall. So I decided to read Dracula graphic novel, which I absolutely and totally love the movies and tv shows of Dracula. This is actually the first Graphic Revolve novel that I have read. And I don't think it won't be my last. Even though I didn't love this one but I really did enjoy it so much. To me this graphic novel is a 3.5 stars but  I put it down to 3 stars. I really did like and enjoy this graphic novel but I thought it was too short and it didn't really developed the characters that well. I haven't read Dracula by Bram Stoker yet but I am planning to listening to it in October so I can read how Dracula developed in that book. And I really did love the graphic art in this one it was really different graphic art from what I am used too see in graphic novels. I can totally understand why readers really didn't like and enjoy this Dracula graphic novel, which it is totally alright. All and all I didn't love it either but I over all did enjoy it a lot. I will most definitely continue on reading more Graphic Revolve Novels in the near future!

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 Michael Burgan

Michael Burgan studied history at the University of Connecticut before embarking on his career of writing about history, current events, geography, science, and more for children. He worked at Weekly Reader for six years before becoming a freelance author. He is a member of Biographers International Organization and edits its monthly newsletter, The Biographer's Craft. A produced playwright, he is also a member of the Dramatists Guild.

 Bram Stoker

He was born Abraham Stoker in 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent – then as now called "The Crescent" – in Fairview, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker and the feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely. Stoker was the third of seven children. Abraham and Charlotte were members of the Clontarf Church of Ireland parish and attended the parish church (St. John the Baptist located on Seafield Road West) with their children, who were both baptised there.

Stoker was an invalid until he started school at the age of seven — when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."

After his recovery, he became a normal young man, even excelling as an athlete (he was named University Athlete) at Trinity College, Dublin (1864 – 70), from which he graduated with honours in mathematics. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society".

In 1876, while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book (The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published 1879) and theatre reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. His interest in theatre led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. He also wrote stories, and in 1872 "The Crystal Cup" was published by the London Society, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in The Shamrock.

In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world.

The Stokers had one son, Irving Noel, who was born on December 31, 1879.

Bram Stoker died in 1912, and was cremated and his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium. After Irving Noel Stoker's death in 1961, his ashes were added to that urn. The original plan had been to keep his parents' ashes together, but after Florence Stoker's death her ashes were scattered at the Gardens of Rest.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker