Dracula's Demeter

From the dark mind of DOUG LAMOREUX comes a new work of classic horror fiction for today's audience... Dracula's Demeter.

August, 1897, the Russian schooner Demeter, carrying fifty boxes of earth, ran aground in Whitby, her crew missing save for her captain who was tied to the wheel with a crucifix in his lifeless hands. The only living thing aboard, a huge dog, escaped into the night. With a few cryptic journal entries, Bram Stoker (in his classic Dracula) offered scant hints regarding the terrifying sea voyage that brought the vampire king from Transylvania to a blood-rich London. Now, the whole mind-rending story is told.  The story of Trevor Harrington, a British scholar and fugitive. Of Swales, the old Scot cook, who deceives the ship's commander, but knows a good deal "aboon grims and boh-ghosts". Of Ekaterina Gabor, a beautiful Romanian who follows her lover to sea by stowing away. Of Captain Nikilov, fighting for his ship and crew while something evil, more virulent than the black plague, decimates their number. Of Demeter herself, named for the Greek goddess of renewal, lost and tossed on an unforgiving sea. And of Count Dracula, at rest in Demeters dark hold until the unintended actions of her crew resurrect the vampire and his unquenchable bloodlust.

Lamoreux is the author of 2011's The Devil's Bed, a tale of Templar knight terror, which Tim McGregor, author of Bad Wolf, called, "One hell of a thrill ride!" Fangoria Magazine called the Devil's Bed, "...zestfully gory...".

Fangoria calls Dracula's Demeter "a fiendishly clever and welcome addition to the Dracula mythology. Famous Monsters of Filmland says, "... the mounting dread and terror felt by those on the ship is arresting. ...the sense of claustrophobia is very real and unnerving. As the crew slowly disappears one by one, the sense of hopelessness, despair and terror is tangible and at times very frightening... a great read."

Dracula's Demeter (Stylus-of-Iron, 314 pp) is available now in paperback and Kindle editions at Amazon