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The Urn: Dracula of the Apes Book 1
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🏛 Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
📅 2015
📖 144 pages
🌐 English
📔 Paperback
ISBN: 9781508802969
📝 Description: The Urn: Dracula of the Apes Book 1
Dracula of the Apes picks up where Bram Stoker's Dracula left off and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes began. Genres collide in this thrilling horror/adventure fiction hybrid. Dracula's Gypsy servant Horvat has the special duty of preserving his master's body if the worst should ever happen-and the worst has happened! Van Helsing's team of vampire hunters has decapitated the count and reduced him to dust and ashes. Horvat's instructions are simple. Dracula's remains must be stored in a special urn and bathed in blood while en route to South Africa where a mysterious ally will see to his resurrection. But fate steps in off the African coast and a shipwreck casts Horvat and his precious burden into the jungle setting of another literary classic.
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The novel succeeds by leveraging the tension between high Gothic horror and pulpy jungle adventure. By utilizing Horvat as the narrative anchor, it maintains a connection to Stoker’s lore while embracing Burroughs’ action-driven pacing. The premise of preserving the count in an urn adds a tangible, physical stakes to the supernatural elements. It suits readers who enjoy speculative fiction that plays with canonical boundaries. While the concept is provocative, the execution relies heavily on the inherent appeal of seeing these two literary giants interact. It is a bold, entertaining hybrid that captures the spirit of early adventure horror without overcomplicating its straightforward premise.
