But thinking, feeling, intelligent Mina isn't having it. True to their Victorian beliefs and morés, the men have cast the women of the story as either saints of harridans, relegating them to sidelines to seethe or swoon as they may. No, it is a sort of feminist retelling in which Mina asserts that the story that everyone knows, the story that's been told by men, is false. The result is a scintillating gothic novel that reinvents the tragic heroine Mina as a modern woman tortured by desire.ĭracula in Love isn't just a fill-in-the-gaps retelling of Dracula, fleshing out the story from Mina's point of view. What she has to say is more sensual, more devious, and more enthralling than ever imagined.
Now, for the first time, Dracula’s eternal muse reveals all.
Mina’s version of this timeless gothic vampire tale is a visceral journey into the dimly lit bedrooms, mist-filled cemeteries, and locked asylum chambers where she led a secret life, far from the chaste and polite lifestyle the defenders of her purity, and even her fiancé, Jonathan Harker, expected of her.īram Stoker’s classic novel was only one side of the story. Essex is going to be my guest this evening.From the shadowy banks of the River Thames to the wild and windswept coast of Yorkshire, the quintessential Victorian virgin Mina Murray vividly recounts in the pages of her private diary the intimate details of what transpired between her and Count Dracula-the joys and terrors of a passionate affair and her rebellion against a force of evil that has pursued her through time. Other titles by Essex include Stealing Athena, Kleopatra and Pharaoh, as well as adapting Anne Rice’s novel The Mummy or Ramses the Damned into a screenplay for Titanic director James Cameron and 20th Century Fox. Continuing in the theme of women’s influence upon culture and art, her latest novel, Stealing Athena, chronicles the story of the controversial Elgin Marbles from the points of view of two fascinating women, Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin, and Aspasia, mistress to Pericles. She is the author of the national and international best-selling novel, Leonardo’s Swans (Doubleday 2006), about the rivalries among the powerful women painted by the great master when he was employed by the Duke of Milan. Karen Essex is an award-winning novelist and journalist and a screenwriter. With Dracula in Love, Karen Essex turns on the heat in this transporting and darkly haunting tale of love and possession that puts forth the question: What if everything you knew about Dracula.
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