Dracula: The Suicide Club

Caliber Press' Dracula

by Steven Philip Jones, John Ross (Illustrations), Kyle Huston (Illustrations)

Sequel to the Bram Stoker's horror classic tale Dracula. Count Dracula, king of the vampires, is dead, but he isn’t finished with England. Resurrected, Dracula rises from the grave, and before long a rash of bizarre suicides begins plaguing London. Scotland Yard Detective Champion Harrison suspects these may actually be murders, and noted occult specialist Sir John Chandos and beautiful clairvoyant Dion Fortune from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn offer to assist Harrison’s investigation. Their search leads them to London’s newest and most mysterious club and its peculiar chairman. And as the soul-shattering secrets behind the Suicide Club are revealed Detective Champion Harrison and clairvoyant Dion Fortune challenge Count Dracula and his followers on their own battleground. The final conflict between the forces of goodness and evil is about to begin, and the fate of England and her citizens’ souls hang in the balance. Written by award-winning comic writer Steven Philip Jones (CALIBER’s H.P. Lovecraft’s Worlds, Sherlock Holmes, and Tatters) and illustrated by John Ross (DC’s Wonder Woman, MARVEL’s Spider-Man, and Doctor Who). Based on the classic works of Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson.Collects issues 1-4 of the comic book series.

122 pages, Paperback

First published September 17, 2017

About the author

Steven Philip Jones (born March 20, 1960) is an American writer. His best known works include the horror-adventure comics series Nightlinger, the mystery novel King of Harlem, and the non-fiction books The Clive Cussler Adventures: A Critical Review and Comics Writing: Communicating with Comic Books.

Reviews

[Kaitlyn (ktxx22) Walker]

I’m DNFing this book at 30%…. I didn’t love the art style. The story was incredibly meandering and I couldn’t be bothered to finish it whatsoever. So I’m not.

[Dann · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dracula: The Suicide Club is a disappointing and amateurish graphic novel. A combining of Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson, when a wealthy English lord investigates a mysterious social club that arranges its member’s deaths, he finds that it’s being led by Count Dracula. Despite the title, Dracula’s not really that involved in the plot and isn’t the Dracula from Bram Stoker’s novel. Still, the mystery behind the club is intriguing and there are some interesting characters. However, the artwork is rudimentary and crude, with no coloring, texture, or shading. An especially poor “sequel” to Bram Stoker’s classic, Dracula: The Suicide Club fails to deliver a compelling continuation of Dracula’s tale.