The one point of view we never heard in the novel was Dracula’s own. Saberhagen’s approach works well, since Dracula is an epistolary novel told from several points of view. It turns out that Arthur and Janet Harker are descendants of Jonathan and Mina Harker of Stoker’s novel and Dracula is on a mission which will be revealed at the end of the novel. He relates the events of Bram Stoker’s novel from his point of view. On the tape within, is the voice of a man purporting to be Count Dracula. Arthur Harker and his wife Janet arrive in a hospital after their car dies on a remote road. Fortunately, Fred’s wife, Joan Saberhagen, has made certain that The Dracula Tape is still available in ebook and audio formats, so I was finally able to pick up a copy and dive into a book I’d long meant to read. Unfortunately, by the time I actually read Dracula in the mid-1990s, Saberhagen’s novel had fallen off my radar. However, in 1986, I hadn’t yet read the original Dracula and I thought it would be more enjoyable if I had some background. After I’d read and enjoyed The Frankenstein Papers, I’d always meant to seek out a copy of The Dracula Tape. It occurred to me that was a serious omission. Recently, a friend asked if I’d ever read Saberhagen’s 1975 novel, The Dracula Tape.
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