Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum

Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum

By Matthew Gibson

Genre:-Mystery/Thriller/Historical

Pages:-280

Publisher:-Book Guild Publishing

Blurb:-London, September 1888, Jack the Ripper roams the streets. A scream rings out from beneath the stage of the Lyceum Theatre...

A young 'actress' has been attacked, suffering peculiar bite wounds to her neck; an event that announces a series of strange, vampiric happenings, and thrusts an unwitting Bram Stoker-acting manager of the Lyceum and aspiring author-into the limelight, and the action.

 Increasingly perplexed by the unsettling behaviour of his 'Guv'nor', the brilliant but mercurial actor, Henry Irving, and Irving's acclaimed leading lady, Ellen Terry, Stoker soon starts suspecting the worst. And then, another attack reveals a vicious Prussian baron, returned to London as a vampire seeking revenge...

 Alive with Gothic intrigue, reversal and surprise, Mr Stoker will keep the reader enthralled and confounded until its final, shocking scene-indeed, until its very last word.

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My Review:-Matthew Gidson new what he was doing when he wrote this book.  I can see where Bram Stoker got his Dracula from. Matthew has took both history and known novels together and made a book that is full of everything you could want in a book. We meet some interesting characters a long the way through this story. The story begins on stage at Lyceum, where Bram Stoker is acting manager and it end's with the creation of  Bram Stoker Dracula, is this a anagram of Curdala's as Irving protested it did. I have to say when it came to writing this review I wasn't sure where to start. Matthew has put so much work into this book and I read it in one sitting as it draw me in and I needed to know more. 

If you like, gothic, history, thriller, mystery, this book has it all. It's a must read from me