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The Last Vampire #6
Vampire Park
Back home after a trip abroad, Count Alucard, the vegetarian vampire, is surprised to find a stranger living in his castle. This turns out to be none other than Freddie, the Count's long-lost cousin, who not only has a claim on the family seat, but also has some rather fearsome plans for it.
206 pages, Hardcover
First published August 7, 1997
About the author
Willis Hall
93 books10 followersWillis Hall was an English playwright and radio and television writer who drew on his working class Leeds roots in much of his material.
His most famous creation was probably Billy Liar (1960), co-written with life-long friend and collaborator Keith Waterhouse, and based on the latter's novel. His rise to fame had come from his play about British soldiers in the Malayan jungle The Long and the Short and the Tall.
He wrote more than a dozen children's books, including a series about a family called the Hollins who meet a vegetarian vampire called Count Alucard. He also wrote a book, Henry Hollins and the Dinosaur. His membership in the Magic Circle was a source of inspiration for these books. He also wrote 40 radio and television plays, as well as contributing to many TV series, including The Return of the Antelope and Minder.
He wrote a musical about the scarecrow Worzel Gummidge, and others based on the books Treasure Island and The Wind in the Willows. He also wrote Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure.
His most famous creation was probably Billy Liar (1960), co-written with life-long friend and collaborator Keith Waterhouse, and based on the latter's novel. His rise to fame had come from his play about British soldiers in the Malayan jungle The Long and the Short and the Tall.
He wrote more than a dozen children's books, including a series about a family called the Hollins who meet a vegetarian vampire called Count Alucard. He also wrote a book, Henry Hollins and the Dinosaur. His membership in the Magic Circle was a source of inspiration for these books. He also wrote 40 radio and television plays, as well as contributing to many TV series, including The Return of the Antelope and Minder.
He wrote a musical about the scarecrow Worzel Gummidge, and others based on the books Treasure Island and The Wind in the Willows. He also wrote Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure.
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March 27, 2026
Volume 6 of the adventures of Count Alucard, the world's only vegetarian vampire - he has been known to give a peach a nasty suck. In this story the Count meets what he believes to be his long-lost cousin Freddie Allardyce Alucard, the last of the English descendants of the ghastly Count Dracula. As Freddie explains it, when Dracula was washed up in Whitby he passed the time by marrying a local girl, Patience Thoroughgood, and left her to care for herself and their baby son Rupert when he flew off to London for a more hearty feast of phlebotomy work. It was from Rupert that Freddie's line derived and, like Alucard, Freddie has lost the family taste for human blood on the way, though he expresses a limit when it comes to sharing Alucard's love of vegetables, tomato juice spiced with tabasco, and sleeping in a coffin.
The story also brings back the Hollins family, Albert, Emily and their 12-year-old son Henry and, my goodness, they are needed. While the story of Freddie's chicanery - the rogue wants to make Castle Alucard into a vampire theme park - should provide scope for plenty of slapstick comedy and silly jokes, the cast of Alucard, Freddie and his butler Higgins, various villagers and a pack of feral wolves struggles to raise more than a titter. The arrival of the Hollinses livens things up a little but too late to be truly effective.
Some opportunities are missed. Perhaps Higgins could have been made into a version of the stately Jeeves, though a cunning and felonious one. However, the impact of that would probably have been missed by the 10 and under readership. When travelling to the castle Henry and his family share a cart with a group of German tourists, including a girl of Henry's age. Why not let the pair of them have their own scares and adventures together? But sadly, no, it doesn't happen. The anonymous girl is left in the background with her equally anonymous family.
Everything was there for a comedy of outrageous vampire puns and all I got was an odd chuckle. Perhaps the Count is too nice. There are few laughs to be won in watching a Bela Lugosi lookalike sink his fangs into an unresisting carrot.
The story also brings back the Hollins family, Albert, Emily and their 12-year-old son Henry and, my goodness, they are needed. While the story of Freddie's chicanery - the rogue wants to make Castle Alucard into a vampire theme park - should provide scope for plenty of slapstick comedy and silly jokes, the cast of Alucard, Freddie and his butler Higgins, various villagers and a pack of feral wolves struggles to raise more than a titter. The arrival of the Hollinses livens things up a little but too late to be truly effective.
Some opportunities are missed. Perhaps Higgins could have been made into a version of the stately Jeeves, though a cunning and felonious one. However, the impact of that would probably have been missed by the 10 and under readership. When travelling to the castle Henry and his family share a cart with a group of German tourists, including a girl of Henry's age. Why not let the pair of them have their own scares and adventures together? But sadly, no, it doesn't happen. The anonymous girl is left in the background with her equally anonymous family.
Everything was there for a comedy of outrageous vampire puns and all I got was an odd chuckle. Perhaps the Count is too nice. There are few laughs to be won in watching a Bela Lugosi lookalike sink his fangs into an unresisting carrot.
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