🦇 Vampires

Alesha's Story

✍️ D L Burke
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🏛 Independently Published 📅 2020 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9798679252967

📝 Description: Alesha's Story

In the year 1865, in the country of Oakshire, England, Dracula continued his reign of terror. After the town's futile attempt to destroy him, the Count escapes aboard a slave ship to America. Landing in the Carolina's, Dracula turns a black slave into one of his children, a blood-thirsty demon to kill and ravish all within his reach. Today, in the black town of Helton, Georgia, already inflicted with the devastating disease of crack cocaine, new destruction arrive, vampires. And they have discovered an added treat; the pulsating, vivacious, sweet blood of an addict. In a brutal night of destruction, the local drug dealers are all murdered. Inside the town's haunted mansion, a new crack house opens, the catch, it only sells from sundown to sun up. Hell has come to Helton

💎 Our verdict on Alesha's Story

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This work effectively transplants the ancient evil of Dracula into the specific cultural landscape of post-Civil War America and modern Georgia. By linking vampirism with the crack cocaine epidemic, it creates a potent metaphor for destruction and addiction. The setting of Helton serves as a grim backdrop for exploring themes of racial tension and moral decay. It suits readers who appreciate horror that tackles social issues through a supernatural lens, offering a brutal and atmospheric take on the genre without relying solely on traditional Gothic tropes.
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This work effectively transplants the ancient evil of Dracula into the specific cultural landscape of post-Civil War America and modern Georgia. By linking vampirism with the crack cocaine epidemic, it creates a potent metaphor for destruction and addiction. The setting of Helton serves as a grim backdrop for exploring themes of racial tension and moral decay. It suits readers who appreciate horror that tackles social issues through a supernatural lens, offering a brutal and atmospheric take on the genre without relying solely on traditional Gothic tropes.

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