Review: "These ruins are unsafe."
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2012
This passage from Stoker's Dracula is placed in real life in the Scottish castle.  Delaney has visited it to trace Stoker's creation of the classic vampire novel.  This single traces both the history of vampire lore and the evolution of the book Dracula.  The facts he has traced are quite interesting.  I knew some of them, and some I did not.I found his writing style a little smarmy and snide.  The asides which he places in this tone broke the pace of the book and cheapened the writing.  So I found pros and cons on this book.  You choose.