By: Bram Stoker Publisher: Eureka Productions Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Eureka Productions Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 144 Publication Date: August 15, 2007
Product Description: Graphic Classics: Bram Stoker is completely revised, with an all-new comics adaptation of "Dracula" by Rich Rainey and Joe Ollmann. Returning from the first edition are "The Judge's House" by Gerry Alanguilan, "Torture Tower" by Onsmith Jeremi, and "The Lair of the White Worm" by South African artist Rico Schacherl. Also "The Bridal of Death", an excerpt from "The Jewel of Seven Stars" by J.B. Bonivert, and "The Wondrous Child" illustrated by Evert Geradts. With a sumptuous cover painting by Mark A. Nelson.
A worthy volume of illustrated adaptations "Graphic Classics: Bram Stoker" serves up an excellent collection of illustrated stories by horror Grandmaster Bram Stoker. Each tale is either fully illustrated, comic book style, or text and page combined. All of the illustrations are in black and white, and feature a wide variety of styles and flair. This is definitely not the typical art you would find in a DC or Marvel comic, but is much more "arty."
There is plenty of "Dracula," Stoker's number one claim to fame, but there is also enough of his other works to let us know that he wrote more than one novel. This is the second edition of "Graphic Classics: Bram Stoker", with some favorites returning from the first edition, along with some excellent new adaptations.
The stories include:
"Dracula" - Stoker's most famous story, illustrated by Joe Ollmann in a slightly cartoony but appropriately Gothic style. The adaptation is and the style of the book is kept intact, including the letters and paper clippings that drive the plot forward. A nice showpiece for this new edition.
"Vampire's Hunter Guide" is a combination of Van Helsing's text from "Dracula", combined with semi-humorous drawings by Hunt Emerson.
"The Judge's House" is a EC comics -style adaptation (Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, etc...) of a haunted house story. Beware the Judge!
"The Bridal of Death" is adapted from "The Jewel of Seven Stars." A mummy tale, it is rendered in the unique style of J.B. Bonivert who also adapted the Sax Rohmer mummy tale "In the Valley of the Sorceress" for Graphic Classics vol. 12, "Adventure Classics".
"Torture Tower" shows the danger of being a loud-mouthed American tourist in Nuremberg. Wonderfully adapted by Onsmith Jeremi, it is done in an "underground comics" -style, with nervous energy that suits the gruesome tale of comeuppance.
"The Wondrous Child" is illustrated text, with a flight of fancy and a trip to fairy land. The master of horror could put out something sweet from time to time as well.
"Lair of the White Worm" is a great tale of jolly, haunted England and the monsters that haunt its green and pleasant land. Bizarre and sensual, the Lady Arabella is a classic Gothic villainess, with her secret rituals and lust for blood. Illustrated in comic book style, with a Victorian flair in style, by Rico Schacherl.
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