A skeptical London lawyer is drawn into a world of vampires and Dominican vampire slayers amid 1900 England, mixing horror, dry humor, and Catholic theology.
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A skeptical London lawyer is drawn into a world of vampires and Dominican vampire slayers amid 1900 England, mixing horror, dry humor, and Catholic theology.
It is 1900, the dawn of a new century. Even as the old Queen's health fails, Victorian Britain stands monumental and strong upon a mountain of technological, scientific, and intellectual progress. For John Kemp, a straight-forward, unimaginative London lawyer, life seems reassuringly predictable yet forward-leaning, that is, until a foray into the recently published sensationalist novel Dracula, united with a chance meeting with an eccentric Dominican friar, catapults him into a bizarre, violent...
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Protagonist feels deep attraction to an unconventional American heiress
Grisly murder scenes and vampire attacks with blood and destruction
No profanity depicted
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Dominican friar, exorcism, Catholic rituals, theology, and anti-Catholic prejudice central
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Vampires as demonic perversion of Eucharist with possession and ritual slaying
Protagonist confronts and overcomes anti-Catholic prejudices
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Vicious assaults and murders targeting friends and others
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