Young Dracula: Part 4

By MICHAEL LAWRENCE

Twelve years passed. Count Dracula was now half the vampire he had been. He was lame and could no longer turn himself into a bat. He never went out at night. The villagers no longer feared him, and the bloodmen no longer delivered. He had to content himself with the blood of the rats that scampered around the castle.

One dark and miserable midnight, the old Count sat gazing out from his high tower. On the hill across the valley stood the crumbling ruin of Castle Gertler. No-one had lived there since the Baron's death.

`Ah, those were the nights,'' the Count sighed, with a tear in his eye.

Publisher: Barrington Stoke

Price: $14.95

Age group: 8-13 years


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