Chapter One
We have Beth from Tampa on the line. Hello."
"Hi, Kitty, thanks for taking my call."
"You're welcome."
"I have a question I've been wanting to ask for a long time. Do
you think Dracula is still out there?"
I leaned on the arm of my chair and stared at the microphone.
"Dracula. As in, the book? The character?"
Beth from Tampa sounded cheerful and earnest. "Yeah. I mean,
he's got to be the best known vampire there is. He was so powerful, I
can't really believe that Van Helsing and the rest of them just finished
him off."
I tried to be polite. "Actually, they did. It's just a book,
Beth. Fiction. They're characters."
"But you sit there week after week telling everyone that vampires and
werewolves are real. Surely a book like this must have been based on something
that really happened. Maybe his name wasn't actually Dracula, but Bram
Stoker must have based him on a real va ...
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