Halloween Parallel Stories

I recently discovered that Science Fiction and Fantasy author Fred Saberhagen wrote The Dracula Tape (1975), a version of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) from Dracula's point of view. In it Dracula survives Van Helsing and Harker's attack, and Saberhagen went on to write another nine books with Dracula as the main character. In fact, in the rest of series Dracula encounters several other fictional characters, including, in the second book The Holmes-Dracula File (1978), Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

With the success of his Dracula series, Saberhagen also wrote The Frankenstein Papers (1986), which continues the story of Frankenstein's monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) retelling the original story from the monster's point of view as excerpts from his journal. Apparently, the monster even meets Benjamin Franklin in Paris as part of the story.

So there are a couple of books you can look for this Halloween season if you are interested. I haven't read either of them so anyone has read them, or does, let us know what you think about them. (Click here it see my previous post on other parallel stories.)