Powers of Darkness: the Swedish Dracula (2022)

The Swedish newspaper serial behind the Icelandic version, in English.

The Icelandic text had a source: a Stockholm newspaper serial of 1899–1900, several times longer, now translated in full.

You read the Icelandic version and want the longer Swedish newspaper serial it came from.

What it keeps and what it changes

Keeps: Stoker’s characters and the outline of his plot.
Changes: the scale, and much of the story. Rickard Berghorn translates from the Swedish, with Emil Åberg’s original illustrations.

Whose story is it?

a larger cast than the novel’s.

How much time does it ask?

566 pages in paperback, from a Swedish publisher, Timaios Press.

Powers of Darkness: The Unique Version of Dracula, Timaios Press, 16 March 2022, paperback, 566 pages; translated by Rickard Berghorn. The 2022 Centipede Press limited edition of the same translation is sold out.

Where to find it

Paperback — Amazon

Other ways to get it: The publisher — Timaios Press

Borrow it free: Find it by ISBN 9789187611438 — WorldCat

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More Draculas: The Norton Critical Edition, second edition · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2011) · The Penguin Classics edition (2003)