Young Dracula: Part 2

By MICHAEL LAWRENCE

In a remote corner of Transylvania, there were once two rival vampires. One was Count Dracula, the other Baron Gertler. The Count and the Baron lived in tall, black castles on opposite sides of the valley. Far below, between the two castles, there was a village.

Every night, very late, village bloodmen (The Transylvanian version of milkmen) rode up to the castles with bottles of fresh blood for the Count and the Baron. The bloodmen collected a cupful from everyone in the village between the ages of ten and eighty. The villagers had no choice in this. Now, Count Dracula and Baron Gertler were the last of their line. Neither of them had children to follow in their bloody footsteps. But one year, the Count brought home a wife, and the following year Countess Dracula gave birth to a son, whom they called Wilfred.

Publisher: Barrington Stoke

Price: $14.95

Age group: 8-13 years


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