Temné síly - Zapomenutá švédská verze Drákuly – Stoker Bram (2025)

The Dark Forces represent one of the greatest discoveries in the long history of the Dracula story..." writes John E. Browning in his foreword, an expert in the horror and vampire genre.

This is a unique version of Bram Stoker's masterful bloody work, published in 1899 in Sweden. It is a book twice the length of the classic novel from 1897 and also significantly more packed with eroticism and violence. There is no doubt that Bram Stoker contributed to the creation of The Dark Forces, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Here we encounter many characters and motifs found in Stoker's notes for Dracula, which the author ultimately omitted from the final version. Literary scholars agree that The Dark Forces stems from an early version of the classic Dracula. Subsequently, the novel was translated into Icelandic in a significantly shortened form, but the original is this!

Lovers of Dracula and new readers alike are presented with a significantly different story with a completely new ending. Count Dracula does not intend merely to spread vampire blood across the world, but as part of a conspiracy with world powers, he plans to establish a fascist world order linked to the worship of pagan gods through bloody rituals.

And after the Dracula...