When Bram Stoker was writing his famous novel, Dracula, in the late 19th century, he received a visit from a man named Joe Bodenland. And while the real Count Dracula had come from the distant past, Bodenland was coming from the future in a desperate attempt to save the world from the Ancients.
An adventure where supernatural horror coexists with science fiction. The central characters, Stoker, Bodenland, and Dracula himself, are wrapped in centuries of morbidity and caught up in the frantic pace of events as Bodenland’s family lives. Bram Stoker follows Joe intending to eliminate the vampires once and for all. But the trail they begin to follow in 21st-century Utah leads them to a time and place far away and to a devastating climax that changes the world forever – and its inhabitants.
Brian Aldiss reveals all his romance and imagination in this paradoxical expedition beyond life, death, and time itself.
