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Dracula
Terror in the Night
Jonathan Harker is sent to see a client of his company in a distant part of Europe. The castle is deserted and the count is a very strange host. But little does young Jonathan suspect that he and the people closest to him are about to be put into the worst danger and the most gruesome terror that anyone can imagine!
Now they must track and destroy Dracula before he finds and destroys each of them!
Jonathan Harker is sent to see a client of his company in a distant part of Europe. The castle is deserted and the count is a very strange host. But little does young Jonathan suspect that he and the people closest to him are about to be put into the worst danger and the most gruesome terror that anyone can imagine!
Now they must track and destroy Dracula before he finds and destroys each of them!
239 pages, Hardcover
Published May 1, 1989
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September 15, 2022
It's a bit gruesome but not super bad for younger children. It could give them nightmares. But for young adults it would be okay. I read it when I was 9. It was okay but it made my hands tremble every time they mentioned the word blood. - E.
November 4, 2025
2/5 stars. Funny story with this book. I wanted to read both Frankenstien and Dracula for Halloween. My library had this listed as “Dracula, by Bram Stoker” which is also what the cover says. When I finally got my hands on the book, however, it’s a kids book. Kinda.
I did get the proper Dracula and read that first, but since I had this one, I decided to read it to my wife, so she could have the famous story without having to read the whole original tome. The good thing about this book is that it is a faithful recreation of the original, beat for beat. The bad thing is that it simply is just a beat for beat retelling, dumbed all the way down to almost illiteracy, without seemingly having been proof-read once. It’s like reading a bullet-point recap of the main novel. It was painful to read. You could say it’s for children, but as another reviewer said, it’s not really suitable, as it deals with throat-stabbing and decapitation, among the more expected gruesome elements like blood-sucking and general horror.
I was on the edge between 2 and 3 stars and let my wife choose, and she immediately said “two, terrible”.
I have the original 4, by the way.
This book is good for you if you simply want to know the story of Dracula in about one hour, and don’t care about good writing. Otherwise, it’s as soulless as the Count himself.
I did get the proper Dracula and read that first, but since I had this one, I decided to read it to my wife, so she could have the famous story without having to read the whole original tome. The good thing about this book is that it is a faithful recreation of the original, beat for beat. The bad thing is that it simply is just a beat for beat retelling, dumbed all the way down to almost illiteracy, without seemingly having been proof-read once. It’s like reading a bullet-point recap of the main novel. It was painful to read. You could say it’s for children, but as another reviewer said, it’s not really suitable, as it deals with throat-stabbing and decapitation, among the more expected gruesome elements like blood-sucking and general horror.
I was on the edge between 2 and 3 stars and let my wife choose, and she immediately said “two, terrible”.
I have the original 4, by the way.
This book is good for you if you simply want to know the story of Dracula in about one hour, and don’t care about good writing. Otherwise, it’s as soulless as the Count himself.
December 31, 2012
Re-read it in this abridged version. It is as wonderful as ever!
November 23, 2021
the illustrations are great! this abridged version feels a bit choppy, but still gets the story across.
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