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The Dead Travel Fast: A Vampire Slaying Novel (The Immortal Dracula series Book 1) Kindle Edition

• Book 1 of 4 The Immortal Dracula series
• Print length 483 pages
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• Publication date January 21, 2022
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• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09QYB3XSZ
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Spindrift Press (January 21, 2022)
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 21, 2022
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• File size ‏ : ‎ 5064 KB
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• Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 483 pages
• #679 in Vampire Thrillers
• #749 in Vampire Suspense
• #1,284 in Horror Suspense

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A full-time author who lives in Florida's Tampa Bay area, Scott W. Cook is and has always been a lover of good stories. When he's not hard at work composing new tales, Scott enjoys living the full Florida lifestyle - sailing, surfing, kayaking, fishing and if you can throw in a great waterside bar and grill and good tunes, you'll find a happy man!

Scott is a voracious reader, and truly loves losing himself in a good story. It's one of the reasons he first became a writer - the desire to bring an engaging, exciting and entertaining tale to life. With his Florida-based private investigator series, his WWII submarine thriller series and new Age of Sail naval adventures, Scott indulges his passions and allows his imagination to run wild... in the hope that immersing yourself in his books will put a smile on your face.

To learn more visit Scott at his website:

www.scottwcook.com

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The Dead Travel Fast: A Vampire Slaying Novel (The Immortal Dracula series Book 1) Kindle Edition

• Book 1 of 4 The Immortal Dracula series
• Print length 483 pages
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• Publication date Jan. 21 2022
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• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09QYB3XSZ
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Spindrift Press (Jan. 21 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• File size ‏ : ‎ 5064 KB
• Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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• Print length ‏ : ‎ 483 pages
• #777 in Vampire Horror Fiction
• #1,816 in Vampire Thrillers
• #14,071 in Horror Fiction (Kindle Store)

About the author

A full-time author who lives in Florida's Tampa Bay area, Scott W. Cook is and has always been a lover of good stories. When he's not hard at work composing new tales, Scott enjoys living the full Florida lifestyle - sailing, surfing, kayaking, fishing and if you can throw in a great waterside bar and grill and good tunes, you'll find a happy man!

Scott is a voracious reader, and truly loves losing himself in a good story. It's one of the reasons he first became a writer - the desire to bring an engaging, exciting and entertaining tale to life. With his Florida-based private investigator series, his WWII submarine thriller series and new Age of Sail naval adventures, Scott indulges his passions and allows his imagination to run wild... in the hope that immersing yourself in his books will put a smile on your face.

To learn more visit Scott at his website:

www.scottwcook.com

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The Dead Travel Fast: A Vampire Slaying Novel (The Immortal Dracula series Book 1) Kindle Edition

• Book 1 of 4 The Immortal Dracula series
• Print length 483 pages
• Language English
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• Publication date 21 Jan. 2022
• File size 5064 KB
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• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09QYB3XSZ
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Spindrift Press (21 Jan. 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• File size ‏ : ‎ 5064 KB
• Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
• Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
• Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
• X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
• Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
• Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 483 pages
• 1,942 in Horror (Kindle Store)
• 2,407 in Horror (Books)
• 10,662 in Thrillers (Kindle Store)

About the author

A full-time author who lives in Florida's Tampa Bay area, Scott W. Cook is and has always been a lover of good stories. When he's not hard at work composing new tales, Scott enjoys living the full Florida lifestyle - sailing, surfing, kayaking, fishing and if you can throw in a great waterside bar and grill and good tunes, you'll find a happy man!

Scott is a voracious reader, and truly loves losing himself in a good story. It's one of the reasons he first became a writer - the desire to bring an engaging, exciting and entertaining tale to life. With his Florida-based private investigator series, his WWII submarine thriller series and new Age of Sail naval adventures, Scott indulges his passions and allows his imagination to run wild... in the hope that immersing yourself in his books will put a smile on your face.

To learn more visit Scott at his website:

www.scottwcook.com

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An assortment of good times.

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Miscommunication is an obnoxious plot device

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Something new

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Nick Podehl

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• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Fantastic audio drama

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Years have passed since the last of the Dark Gods was defeated, and Lothion has entered an age of peace and prosperity. Mordecai’s oldest children have already begun to make a place for themselves, and his youngest are on the cusp of adulthood. By every outward measure, his life has been a success; he has earned his reward. However, Tyrion, the first wizard and brutal liberator of mankind, has returned with an agenda of his own, and dark things continue to stir at the edges of civilization, threatening to undo Mordecai’s accomplishments.

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The first three books in this action-packed, wildly original fantasy series by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Walt. This kick-ass urban fantasy series has been compared to books by Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Karen Marie Moning, and more. You're sure to enjoy it if you like spunky heroines, kick-ass fight scenes, wild new worlds, and sizzling, slow-building romance.

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The Argument

The strange driver evidently heard the words, for he looked up with a gleaming smile. The passenger turned his face away, at the same time putting out his two fingers and crossing himself.

It appears that the passenger who quotes Bürger here is harping on the narrative of the famous ballad in which a young woman pining for her lost beloved, a soldier who went off to war and has not returned, is visited by a horseman in his likeness who promises to take her to their bridal bed but who is actually Death who takes her on a whirlwind ride across intervening lands and seas to the graveyard where his bones lie and invites her to join them in the grave. (She dies but her soul ascends to heaven because she begs forgiveness the sin of despair in God’s redemptive power.) It is speech near the end of the poem where the horseman sheds the similitude of William and reveals his true character as Death which the passenger quotes - meaning to suggest that the faceless coachman in the calèche - as distinct from the driver of their own work-a-day post-chase - has the aspect of the Grim Reaper:

The effect is very much that of a ghost-story - or a vampire tale - in which a deathly figures leads his victims out of the world. It is also reminiscent of the carriage-ride with which Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla begins. Nor would thoughts about Emily Dickinson’s poem on Death as a coachman be entirely out of place. In fact Bürger’s poem was written in response to Johann Gottfried Herder’s call for a national German literature reflecting the vernacular potential which he detected in Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) and the MacPherson’s Ossian poems ( The Works of Ossian , 1765) and, indeed, Burger made it clear that his ballad was equally based on a German folk-tale and on the Scottish ballad “Sweet William’s Ghost” which Percy had printed in his collection. All of this was part of the rising tide of European Romanticism but also the new interest in spooky stories as the stuff of polite literature.

Stoker clearly knows the German ballad in the original since he quotes it in that language, yet English translations had been going the rounds since William Taylor published his to great acclaim in the Monthly Review in March 1796 (though written and circulated in manuscript six years earlier). Taylor’s version might seem a likely candidate for the epithet ‘travel’ in the translated line from Bürger’s ballad - but alas, no. That translation is reprinted in The Broadway Anthology of Romantic Poetry (2016) and contains the following lines: ‘Tramp, tramp, across the land they speede; / Splash, splash, across the sea; / “Hurrah! the dead can ride apace; Dost fear to ride with mee?”’ (ll.189-93; see online .) Sadly the Google Books version of the anthology breaks off here, but the point is adequately made that Taylor is a rider rather than a traveller - a notion for which Charles Dickens may have supplied the surprising source, as I note below.

Other translators who left into the rign in 1796 were J. T. Stanley and H. J. Pye and W. R. Spencer, while Walter Scott made a version with a different title - “William and Helen” which is nevertheless pure translation. We know that he heard the poem being read in an Edinburgh drawing-room and was sufficiently impressed to seek out the manuscript in Germany and to translate it in one day in 1794. Yet another translation was made by a very precocious Dante Gabriel Rossetti at the age of 16, in 1844, of which these are the relevant lines:

It is worth glancing here at Sir Walter Scott’s treatment of the speedy travel motif in his quatrains:

Clearly none of these - Whewell, Scott or Rossetti - are the source of the succinct translation which Stoker places in parenthesis after the German original that serves to convey the (presumably German-speaking) passenger’s intuition about the ghastly identity of the mysterious aristocratic coachman. What stands perhaps out in Stoker’s rendering is the word ‘travel’ for Reiten [lit. ‘ride’] and this does not appear to come from any previous English version. Similarly his rendering of schnell as ‘fast’ has an appreciable blunt force. Who the editor is who adds that translation to the text, it recks not to ask - but certainly not Jonathan Harker in whose journal it appears.

That Bürger’s poem and English translations of it influenced the English Romantics is well established; Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth all mention William Taylor’s version in their letters to each other after its appearance in the Monthly Magazine in May 1796 [see note ]. Wordsworth even held that version to be superior to the German, though Coleridge characteristically did not agree. The several complex transactions surrounding those translation were brilliantly appraised by Oliver Farrar Emerson in English Translations of Burger’s Lenore - A Study in English and German Romanticism (Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve UP 1915), the chief source of my information on the subject [available at Internet Archive - online ].

A similar deposition has been made by Marti Lee who claims that that ‘Lenore had a tremendous influence on the literature of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries, and in fact, today’s popular horror books and movies are still feeling the reverberations.’ He goes on:

In short, Bürger’s achievement, while minor in itself, helped father an international movement that led directly to the massive popularity of Gothic works then and now. [...] As the Gothic novel borrowed many of its original conventions from the German ballads, as popularized by “Lenore”, we can fairly say that Bürger is one of the most influential founding fathers of the Gothic and horror genres. (Lee, Marti, ‘The Germanic Invasion: Bürger’s Ballads And their Influence on English writers’, Georgian Southern University - online (unavailable at 02.10.2017), cited in the Wikipedia article on “Lenore” - online ; accessed 02.10.2017; see bibliographical list as infra .)

This seems to apply well to Stoker’s Dracula in which the novelist not alone echoes the theme of the deadly abduction but also incorporates an explicit allusion to Burger with an utterly apposite quotatioin thrown away in conversational mode by the entirely admirable wit of German extraction on the inside of the Transylvanian public carriage. It oddity is that Stoker not only borrows the line but also mentions the author - much as he mentions Max Nordau and Cesare Lombroso in the course of Van Helsing’s diagnosis of Count Dracula’s ontological problems in terms of the criminal type and the recidivist tendencies of his ‘child brain’. It is an odd habit on Stoker’s part and one that reveals him as something of an intellectual show-off and, of course, a determined practicioner of the Irish art of fiction which, as in the case of his compatriot James Joyce, is guaranteed to keep the professors busy for centuries.

Stoker’s fascination with the line from Bürger - no throwaway reference, therefore - is demonstrated by its recurrent in “Dracula’s Guest”, a later short-story in the form of a narrative told by Jonathan Harker who writes: ‘On top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble - for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone - was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: “The Dead Travel Fast”’. In this rendering, the English version of the phrase which is offered as a parenthetical translation in Dracula features as the original even to the extent that the little story omits to say whether the “Russian letters” are used to transcribe the English or the Russian version - or perhaps, more logically, the German original which Stoker has omitted to mention on this occasion, as he also fails to mention the poet who first wrote the phrase that reverberates so noisily in his vampire writings.

According to one website, source, in later life Bürger was dismissed by Franz Schiller who had the monopoly of literary fame in German, and died alone and ignored on 8 June 1797, and ‘and would probably now be completely forgotten if it were not for Bram Stoker.’ (‘“ Denn die Todten reiten schnell ” - Its Meaning and Origin’, at Hubpages, 14 Dec. 2013 - online ; accessed 02.10.2017.) On that website the original couplet is given as, ‘ Sieh hin, sieh her! der Mond-scheint hell . / Wir und die Todten reiten schnell .’ - with a variant quotation from Rossetti’s translation from the one I have given above. Thus:

These are actually earlier lines in the poem - ll.132-32 - as consultation with the Rossetti Archive at Harvard will show - while the lines that correspond to Burger’s original phrase occur repeatedly at ll.157-59, 189-91, as show [ above ]. (It is rather oddly the case that Rossetti’s translation is most often quoted in illustration of Burger’s original on English-language websites - as for instance the Dracula page of Infocult: Uncanny Informatics [ online ; accessed 02.10.2017.]

Finally, as the Wikipedia article on “Lenore” reminds us, the following dialogue occurs between Scrooge and Marley in “A Christmas Carol”: ‘“You travel fast?” said Scrooge. “On the wings of the wind,” replied the Ghost.’ It would seem, then, that the penultimate verse from Bürger’s “Leonore” is like a klaxen note to be heard in numerous English romantic tales - a notice of the presence of death-in-life and life-in-death which is the very stuff of the supernatural tale and which, indeed, even extends into the liminal conclusion of Joyce’s great short story “The Dead”, though with the help of Bürger’s phrase. It may in fact be that Dickens is the immediate source for the translation-term ‘travel’ for reiten in the original since we have not been able to find it in any other translation. If so, Jacob Marley and Count Dracula have formed an unlikely joint-stock company in the world of English literature - or perhaps not so unlikely after all!

BS 02.02.2017

Appendix 1: “Lenore” by G. A. Bürger, translated by William Whewell

Appendix 2: Dating Whewell’s translation

Appendix 3: “Les morts vont vite”

Appendix 4: The “Lenore” of Edgar Allen Poe

Henry James, The Golden Bowl (1904); filmed by James Ivory (2000), with Kate Beckinsale & Nick Nolte

Appendix 4: “Lenore” Bibliography in Wikipedia

Appendix 5: The Boucicault Connection

Appendix 6: Bram Stoker and Victorian Gothic Theatre

George Eliot refers to Leonora

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Since the publication of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula in 1897, the character of Count Dracula has proven to be eminently adaptable, appearing in various guises in over 300 feature films – from FW Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) through to Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D (2012). As with other iconic characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Batman, Dracula has been freed from his roots in a source text and entered what Will Brooker describes as ‘the realm of the icon’. Yet, while there has been a considerable amount of scholarship on the canonical adaptations of Dracula produced in Hollywood, the UK and Germany, very little has been written on the numerous adaptations of the Count Dracula character that have appeared in other film industries. This chapter considers examples of transnational film remakes, including the 1953 Turkish film Drakula İstanbul'da (Dracula in Istanbul), the 1957 Mexican film El Vampiro (The Vampire), and the 1967 Pakistani film Zinda Laash (The Living Corpse). Paying close attention to the variety of ways in which the character is utilised across different cultural contexts, this chapter interrogates the complex issues that this raises in relation to the dynamic interplay of global and local within international popular cinema.

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