Limit 2 Per Customer/Household - The Archive Edition

Bram Stoker made a radical choice in the writing of his classic novel Dracula. He presented it as a collection of found documents -- correspondence, newspaper articles, journal entries -- painstakingly transcribed and compiled into the published book by his characters themselves. His experimental approach brings you directly into the story, and refracts it through countless points of view.

DRACULA: The Evidence is an entirely new way to experience Stoker's masterpiece: through an actual physical research file full of ephemera, correspondence, clues and artifacts. It's the entire original text of Dracula, presented as a gorgeously designed and curated briefcase full of maps, letters, diaries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, and phonograph records. We've teamed up with Dracula expert and Bram's descendent Dacre Stoker to bring you the most immersive way imaginable to experience this modernist masterpiece of gothic horror.

In this edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula you are not merely a reader – you are an explorer making your way through this archive of first-hand evidence, retracing this nightmarish story through the remnants it left behind: correspondence, charts and diagrams, memoranda, artifacts, photographs and much more. All housed in a custom designed briefcase, archival box -- or, in our most exclusive edition, a stone vault! 

In a thrillingly immersive literary experience, Dracula - The Evidence invites readers to become supernatural archaeologists. Crack codes, explore maps & blueprints, find clues. Climb inside our edition and discovers its secrets.

Dracula - The Archive Edition

All of the evidence, presented in a leatherette briefcase with metal clasps. Hundreds of documents, including:

• several books, including Mina Harker's journal, Jonathan Harker's diary, and more
• dozens of letters, notes and telegrams
• a playable phonograph record detailing Dr. Seward's care for his troubled patient Renfield
• maps of the locations where the story unfolds, marked up by the characters
• newspaper clippings and advertisements
• train and theatre tickets
• shipping manifests
• travel itineraries
• and much, much more.

Dracula - The Immortal Edition

A special edition box set presented in an archival solid wooden box, each numbered in an edition of two hundred and fifty and signed by Dacre Stoker, Paul Kepple and Josh O'Neill. Hundreds of documents, including everything contained in THE ARCHIVE, plus:

• pressed flowers slipped into Mina's journal
• skeleton keys to Carfax Abbey
• the double-disc gatefold record set (see THE PHONOGRAPH below)
• a complimentary suitcase, as included with the ARCHIVE EDITION
• ...and much more

DACRE STOKER is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and the international best-selling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead (2009), the official Stoker family endorsed sequel to Dracula. Dacre is also the co-editor (with Elizabeth Miller) of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years (2012). His latest novel, Dracul, a prequel to Dracula, released in October 2018, was co-authored with JD Barker and has been sold to Putnam in North America, Penguin Random House in the UK, and additional publishers in France, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Brazil, Serbia, Taiwan, Turkey, Vietnam, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Portugal, and Poland with film rights purchased by Paramount Studios.

A native of Montreal, Canada, Dacre taught Physical Education and Sciences for twenty-two years, in both Canada and the U.S. He has participated in the sport of Modern Pentathlon as an athlete and a coach at the international and Olympic levels for Canada for 12 years. He is also an avid player and coach of the unique game of Real Tennis. In May of 2016 an athlete he has been coaching for the past 4 years, Camden Riviere, won the World Championships of Court Tennis. He currently lives in Aiken, SC, and together with his wife Jenne they manage the Bram Stoker Estate.

HEADCASE DESIGN is an award-winning graphic design and illustration studio located in Philadelphia that specializes in publishing. Paul Kepple is its founder, owner, creative director, and lead designer. Paul and his team at Headcase have created ambitious and richly elaborate designs that immerse readers in the diverse worlds of Stranger Things, Game of Thrones, Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, and J.J. Abrams’s and Doug Dorst's meta-novel S. They’ve designed behind-the-scenes books for the hit Broadway shows Hamilton, Wicked, and Dear Evan Hansen, cinematic properties like Harry Potter and Star Wars, and art-centric biographies for music legends Geddy Lee of Rush, Courtney Love, and Eminem. In 2012, Headcase co-authored and illustrated the darkly humorous Zombie Tarot, which put Paul’s vast knowledge of b-movies to good use and has sold over 40,000 copies. Their lavish touch is obvious in the artist monographs The Temple of Silence: Forgotten Works & Worlds of Herbert Crowley and MADNESS IN CROWDS: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady, both designed for Beehive Books. Their work has been recognized by AIGA, American Illustration, the Art Director’s Club of New York, Communication Arts, Graphis, How, Print, and was an nominated for an Eisner Award.

Paul is a life-long horror movie fanatic and Dracula enthusiast, and has spent many a childhood afternoon obsessively seeking out every Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee incarnation in existence. He is very much looking forward to his biggest challenge yet — bringing new blood and a fresh take to Bram Stoker’s immortal classic.

Product Info: PREORDER (ETA: October 2022), Published by Beehive Books