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Dracula: A Dark MM Romance Retelling | Bisexual Awakening | Gothic Vampire Romance
Jonathan Harker has spent his whole life performing — the dutiful fiancé, the ambitious solicitor, the man everyone expects him to be. But when business takes him to a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains, the mask begins to slip.
Count Dracula is magnetic, ancient, and utterly uninterested in pretence. He sees through Jonathan instantly — not just his professional composure, but the desire Jonathan has buried so deep he barely recognises it himself.
As Dracula draws him deeper into a world of shadow and seduction, Jonathan is forced to confront what terrifies him not the monster in the castle, but the truth about who he really is.
Because the Count doesn't just want his blood. He wants all of him.
Perfect for fans dark romance, gothic retellings, Interview with the Vampire, slow-burn MM romance, and morally grey love interests
Tropes forbidden desire · bisexual awakening · forced proximity · dark seduction · predator/prey · he falls first · touch her and die (but make it him)
Dracula is a steamy MM gothic romance retelling of Bram Stoker's classic. It contains mature content including explicit scenes between men, dark themes, and a possessive vampire who doesn't share. Intended for readers 18+.
Count Dracula is magnetic, ancient, and utterly uninterested in pretence. He sees through Jonathan instantly — not just his professional composure, but the desire Jonathan has buried so deep he barely recognises it himself.
As Dracula draws him deeper into a world of shadow and seduction, Jonathan is forced to confront what terrifies him not the monster in the castle, but the truth about who he really is.
Because the Count doesn't just want his blood. He wants all of him.
Perfect for fans dark romance, gothic retellings, Interview with the Vampire, slow-burn MM romance, and morally grey love interests
Tropes forbidden desire · bisexual awakening · forced proximity · dark seduction · predator/prey · he falls first · touch her and die (but make it him)
Dracula is a steamy MM gothic romance retelling of Bram Stoker's classic. It contains mature content including explicit scenes between men, dark themes, and a possessive vampire who doesn't share. Intended for readers 18+.
140 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 12, 2026
About the author
Elliot Hale
11 books2 followersElliot Hale writes short fiction about the things most of us walk past — a woman counting her apologies, a man seeing snow for the first time, two old friends meeting at a train station and saying nothing.
Each story in the Quiet Lessons series takes five minutes to read. Each one is followed by a reflection and three questions with no correct answers.
The stories are quiet. The questions are not.
Each story in the Quiet Lessons series takes five minutes to read. Each one is followed by a reflection and three questions with no correct answers.
The stories are quiet. The questions are not.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
June 26, 2026
Quite possibly the most poetically beautiful gothic romance I've ever read.
It's definitely my favorite adaptation, not just because it's Jonathan, but because there's none of that 'reincarnated love' happening. There's simply a man...waiting...longing...searching...for a century for the one who will stay.
The longing, the yearning - my God, the yearning - not just for each other, but acceptance. The knowledge that someone sees me as I am and wants me.
"He kneels. The Count — the ancient, powerful Count — kneels before me on the stone floor of his own chambers, and his hands find my knees, and he parts them, and he looks up at me, and the look on his face is not predatory. It is not possessive. It is the look of a man who has found something he was not certain still existed."
"A softening around the eyes. A release in the set of his mouth. And what is left is the face of a man. Not a count. A man, in his bed, in the morning, looking at the person who stayed."
“A hundred years, Jonathan.” Quietly. “I had stopped listening.” My hand moves to his face — my palm against his jaw, my thumb at his cheek. I hold his face the way he held mine in the library, the way he held mine last night. “You don’t have to listen anymore,” I say. “I’m here.”
Fucking beautiful!
It's definitely my favorite adaptation, not just because it's Jonathan, but because there's none of that 'reincarnated love' happening. There's simply a man...waiting...longing...searching...for a century for the one who will stay.
The longing, the yearning - my God, the yearning - not just for each other, but acceptance. The knowledge that someone sees me as I am and wants me.
"He kneels. The Count — the ancient, powerful Count — kneels before me on the stone floor of his own chambers, and his hands find my knees, and he parts them, and he looks up at me, and the look on his face is not predatory. It is not possessive. It is the look of a man who has found something he was not certain still existed."
"A softening around the eyes. A release in the set of his mouth. And what is left is the face of a man. Not a count. A man, in his bed, in the morning, looking at the person who stayed."
“A hundred years, Jonathan.” Quietly. “I had stopped listening.” My hand moves to his face — my palm against his jaw, my thumb at his cheek. I hold his face the way he held mine in the library, the way he held mine last night. “You don’t have to listen anymore,” I say. “I’m here.”
Fucking beautiful!
September 23, 2026
So now we're rewriting classics and cant even come up with a different name for the book? Dracula? Seriously? And nevermind the fact there was already queer rep in the original Dracula with Mina, the Brides and cant forget Carmilla but now we're ripping off a classic to make Johnathan Harker bi? Let's be a little more creative. This was just a lazy rip off
November 9, 2026
Not overly fond of the writing style. Just not to my taste. Also, the copy of the book I had, had multiple typos in with two or three words fused together when they shouldn’t be, which was a distraction that could’ve been sorted by a read through before publishing.
June 12, 2026
I’m obsessed with this book
October 11, 2026
One of the deepest, most arousing books I’ve ever read. The sex sequence when it happens is pretty full on, but it doesn’t come over as gratuitous - it’s beautifully written and not just there to titillate, it seems like just part of the story. An absolutely gorgeous, dreamy, sensuous book …… 😌
May 2, 2026
This book has haunted me since reading it. It's a book that stays in your mind and was so beautifully and poetically written that I had to take a break from reading for a few days because everything just fell flat after this.
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