Mystery
The Holmes-Dracula File
1978·258 pages
Dracula and Sherlock Holmes cross paths in Victorian London, hunting a killer and a criminal plot to unleash plague-infested rats.
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Dracula and Sherlock Holmes cross paths in Victorian London, hunting a killer and a criminal plot to unleash plague-infested rats.
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I had a hard time swallowing some of the revelations about Holmes' past but in the end it is all in good fun, and no more annoying than the Holmes/Russell novels of Laurie King. ... I can't seem to get enough of Saberhagen's rewriting of Dracula. Here, even better, you get two for the price of one with the addition of another myth, the famous Baker Street detective. The author makes an interesting parallel between the two figures in an original story narrated by Watson and Vlad Te
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Bloodless murder victims; human experiments; plague-rat threat; vampire feeding
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Mild period-appropriate language in a Victorian pastiche
Substance use
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Period social drinking typical of Holmes-era settings
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Catholic and sacred-symbol references tied to vampire lore
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic system present
Occult / demonology
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Vampires, undead nature, and hypnosis are central to the plot
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Abuse & suffering
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Human experimentation; victims preyed on and drained of blood
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