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Mike Shepherd

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I live in the village where Dracula was written, a privilege I share with 1,400 souls. This is Cruden Bay in Scotland, a beautiful old fishing village on the coast of Aberdeenshire.

I've added to the local literary tradition by writing books on the oil industry (big in the local area) and Bram Stoker's life and times here.

I'm incredibly lucky to find that Bram Stoker's visits here have never been researched properly before by anyone. A huge story just fell into my lap - the unknown story of what happened when Dracula was written.

I love epic themes sourced through both geology and history. Geology, call it Earth history, tells us a great deal about where we came from and the planet we live on. In a way my book about Bram Stoker is epic too ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 54 ratings · 10 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Oil Strike North Sea: A first-hand history of North Sea oil 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Brave Men Shudder: The Scottish Origins of Dracula by Mike Shepherd (Goodreads Author), Dacre Stoker (Introduction) 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slains Castle's Secret History: Warlords, Churchill, and Count Dracula by Mike Shepherd (Goodreads Author), Dacre Stoker 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	North Sea Heroes: True Stories from a Scottish Shore really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oil Field Production Geology 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unquenched Rage: The Jacobites of North East Scotland, 1688-1708 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cruden Bay Bram Stoker Knew: Adam Drummond's Stories by Mike Shepherd (Goodreads Author), Adam Drummond liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dracula & Cruden Bay 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Mike Shepherd made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — This book is not mine, please move it (part 18) topic " Some of my books have been attributed to the American writer Mike Shepherd (Mike Moscoe) but were written by me. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3 ...more "
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Mike Shepherd has read The A-Z of Curious Aberdeenshire: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Duncan Harley	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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