The Book of Renfield

'Lucas mimics Stoker's style so well that it's hard to distinguish his own writing from passages interpolated from Dracula. A fully humanized character study.' - Publishers Weekly Perhaps the most infamous supporting character in all of Gothic Horror is R.M. Renfield, the unstable patient under observation at Dr. Seward's Carfax Asylum in Bram Stoker's Dracula-a pathetic wretch who prophesies the imminent arrival of 'the Master' while covertly feeding on spiders and flies. Yet Stoker's 1887 classic tells us almost nothing about him. Why-and how-was such an unsavory figure chosen to be the Un-dead Count's groveling envoy? In this remarkable harbinger of the 'mash-up' novel, author Tim Lucas-with the help of Stoker himself-takes us on an illuminating, magical, sometimes strangely erotic investigation into Renfield's origin, fitted seamlessly within the language and the flurry of correspondence and other documentation found in Dracula. THE BOOK OF RENFIELD reinvigorates Stoker's seminal