Quincey Morris, Vampire

by P.N. Elrod

Texan adventurer Quincey Morris managed to kill the famous Dracula, prince among vampires, at the cost of his own life. But that wasn't the end: now Quincey is a vampire And Dracula's old enemy, Professor Van Helsing, has managed to convince Quincey's friends that the only good vampire -- even if he's a former comrade -- is a dead one. . . .

Genres: Vampires, Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Historical

352 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2001

About the author

Patricia Nead Elrod is an American fantasy writer specializing in novels about vampires. Her work falls into areas of fantasy and (in some cases) mystery or historical fiction, but normally not horror, since her vampires are the heroes. -Wikipedia

Reviews

[Melissa S · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is straight-up Dracula fan fic, picking up where the novel ends and following Quincey Morris, who did NOT die in the Transylvanian mountains but instead wakes up as a vampire (although a different "species" of vampire than the Count) and must adapt to his new condition. If you like your vampires as sympathetic heroes, and want a story where Dracula is reasonable and Van Helsing a manipulative, religious nutbag, this fits the bill. Is the cover art appallingly cheesy? Yes. Does Quincey's "Texan" slang get a bit tiring? Yes. Did I enjoy the tarnation out of it? Also yes. :-)

[Ubiquitousbastard · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is one of the few books I actively tell people to avoid. I thought that I would like it based on reading the description. Oh, how very wrong I was. This is just like a really annoying fanfiction. The characters are completely weird and act nothing like they should. Elrod took entirely too much license with the plot and characters of Dracula, so it really is nothing than a poor quality fanfic of a classic book. Ugh.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

A sort of fractured fairy tale follow-up to the story line of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Quincey Morris follows the titular character after he has died during the battle against Dracula... and now newly undead. The book doesn't really have a plot to speak of, but the characters are entertaining and the twists on the classic Dracula tale are choice.

[Jess Mahler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun, light read that gives a very different take on a familiar story.

[Janice · Rating 3 out of 5]

Amusing read. Nothing outstanding, but solid.

[Hannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

zero conflict for 200 pages but then this book does “date the sister so it’s not gay” which honestly i was pretty charmed by so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[The Local Spooky Hermit · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well.. its fine. Its kinda like someone went.. Quinceys my fav(out of the 3 bachelor's for Lucy he's my pick too).. why'd he die? Why is van Helsing seen as good, he's a maniac!! F it gonna write a fanfic!
Spoilers:
And did that. Dracula lived too(hooray!). And took quincey back to his castle to help him out with learning all the tricks to being a vampire.. though points out Quincey is a different breed(can't go out in the sun, can't wake in the daylight, doesn't need to feed on human blood only animal, can only fade into nothing and hypnotize, also I like the idea of many different species/races/breeds of vampires). Turns out Draculas not the bad guy.. just weird and misunderstood.. fine cool I'm happy he's alive.. and it dives a bit into how Dracula really is. I wish theres more of him in it but Quincey soon leaves which is a total bummer. Would have liked more of a dive into dracula and his coping after all his own losses and so on. And a bit more lore on him, which I enjoyed.
From here its a bit mehh.
The love interest is like the perfect girl. Is Arthur's sister, has money, super talented, paints, does thearter, is very out spoken, strong, ect. You get it. She fills too out of place for the time period BUT her boldness and outgoing goes well to a dude that loves hunting and being badass western dude. Also kinda nice someones there for Art bc that dudes gotta be a MESS his dad died, best friends dead, Lucy is dead AND HE HAD TO KILL HER (something art's sister is thoroughly pissed off about, the poor dude watched her die twice and the second time he had to do it) which brings us too...
Van Helsing's character is very different here and he's absolutely thick headed. He doesn't see that Quincey is good even showing holy stuff doesn't bother him, garlic doesn't stop him, doesn't have to be invited in, the others tell him its fine.. The dude just stomps his feet and throws a tantrum. "NO YOU'RE WRONG WEEH YOU DONT GET IT WEEEH." So yeah he's the bad guy. Still all in all its not bad but I thought with the cover and all Quincey would be a bad guy. oh and the Harkers are only mentioned once or so. Like eh thats fine its not their story anymore.
Tired now. Bed its like 3:30 am.

[William Clay · Rating 1 out of 5]

Is it a spoiler to say this book is terrible?!

I remember having to write an essay in first year in secondary school and I spent ages coming up with a beginning and a middle, but I didn't spend any time on the ending. It was getting way late on sunday evening so I just put together some piece of crap at the end. If i'd had more time I'd have written a better ending.
I guess getting a book published must be a lot like that. Maybe they'd started printing the first bits of the book and so Elrod put this together at the end.

The first bit when he's kicking back in Transylvania with Dracula is a bit good. But it goes on for ages and ages. Then the middle bit, he spends way too much time whoring in Europe.

Plus it's got easily the worst last line of any book I've ever even heard of...
"I had plans for her, but hadn't even remotely dreamed she'd plans for me."

Also, there are regrettably few mentions of winchesters.

Poor Quincey.

[Christian Palmer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very uneven-quality follow-up to Dracula from the perspective of Quincey Morris. The chapters that deal solely with Bram Stoker's original characters are nice, and Elrod captures them well, especially in the early chapters. She paints a fairly believable revisionist account of the events of Dracula from the vampire's perspective, although many things get fairy-dusted away with off-stage explanations (like the events on the Demeter in Dracula). Everything else is in the book is fan fiction-level quality, and Elrod's original characters will make you question whether it was worth picking the book up at all.

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is great vampire fun, with flavor of fairytale Transylvania and late 19th century England although I hated attempts to rewrite Dracula and replace Mina with whiney, spoiled, preachy strrrooong woman - wealthy women were apparently mistreated minority in 19th century England. Otherwise, very good

[Titus Hjelm · Rating 2 out of 5]

'Harmless fun' was the first thought in my mind after finishing this. High literature it is not, but after a slow start becomes very readable. I was perhaps hoping for some twist in the end, which never came. Nevertheless, infinitely better than Elrod's hard boiled vampire mashups.

[Lynn Calvin]

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[Helen Fleischer · Rating 4 out of 5]

a very good ripping yarn

[BibliofiendLM · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty silly take on what happened after Dracula.