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Dracula's Ghost: A Jennifer Grail/Carter Decamp Novella
It’s been five months since Police Detective Jennifer Grail learned the hard way that Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula was based in part on actual events. Jen had thought that incident closed until the brutal details of a crime scene lead her to believe the Lord of Vampires may not be done with her just yet.
At the same time two local gangs, vying for control of drug distribution for a Mexican Cartel, find that a third organization is seeking to break into their market. And then a mysterious woman shows up in town and people start disappearing.
Once again, Jen seeks help from Carter Decamp, expert on the occult, and the world’s most dangerous English professor. Dracula’s Ghost mixes hard-boiled crime fiction and blood chilling horror with a thriller pace.
At the same time two local gangs, vying for control of drug distribution for a Mexican Cartel, find that a third organization is seeking to break into their market. And then a mysterious woman shows up in town and people start disappearing.
Once again, Jen seeks help from Carter Decamp, expert on the occult, and the world’s most dangerous English professor. Dracula’s Ghost mixes hard-boiled crime fiction and blood chilling horror with a thriller pace.
100 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 14, 2020
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November 20, 2020
I love Jennifer Grail. I know she's a fictional character, but I love her anyway. She is the bad-ass police detective in this series of novellas by Charles R. Rutledge, and she is one reason Dracula's Ghost is so compulsively readable. Another reason is Carter Decamp, who is a scholar of folklore and magic as well as a martial arts expert and all-around man of adventure. Together they confront a new threat from the Scholomance, the fabled school of black magic from Transylvania, which is attempting to revive the spirits of both Carmilla/Mircalla (from the 1872 Gothic novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, not to mention a series of Hammer Horror movies) and Count Dracula himself. Present-day mobsters get involved, creating bloody crime scenes and making Dracula's Ghost a police-procedural thriller as well as a horror story. Rutledge has done his homework where vampires are concerned, so this novella is true to the canonical worlds of both Carmilla and Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula. Highly recommended for fans of Gothic vampire tales AND fans of fast-paced action.
December 25, 2020
Another Jennifer Grail and Carter DeCamp novella executed with verve, skill and a thorough knowledge of vampire lore.
Rutledge does it again. A master of modern Occult Detective and monster lore. Taut writing, crisp dialog, well drawn characters, traditional monsters. What's not to love?
Recommended for fans of Bram Stoker, Ed McBain, J. Sheridan LeFanu, James S. Moore, and anyone interested in well written horror fiction with an action adventure and police procedural slant.
Rutledge does it again. A master of modern Occult Detective and monster lore. Taut writing, crisp dialog, well drawn characters, traditional monsters. What's not to love?
Recommended for fans of Bram Stoker, Ed McBain, J. Sheridan LeFanu, James S. Moore, and anyone interested in well written horror fiction with an action adventure and police procedural slant.
November 13, 2020
A darker twist for a new adventure.
Bad timing, and good luck seems to be on Jennifer Grail and Carter Decamp's side as they discover a new vampire threat.
Bad timing, and good luck seems to be on Jennifer Grail and Carter Decamp's side as they discover a new vampire threat.
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