Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews Powers of Darkness

25 May 2017 · Locus

Stefan Dziemianowicz

Bram Stoker Estate account

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Dziemianowicz finds Powers of Darkness an intriguing Dracula curiosity but an uneven novel. He considers its altered plot, compressed English section and de Roos’s annotations, treating proposed links to Stoker’s drafts as questions rather than settled history.

Locus review dated 25 May 2017; a 2025 page-update marker is not its original publication. Dziemianowicz’s reservations and conjectures about drafts are preserved as his appraisal, not settled textual history.

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Red cover of Powers of Darkness, The Overlook Press, 2017. — Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula, 2017 English edition, ISBN9781468313369.Cover © The Overlook Press / Abrams.