"...every victorian horror fan's dream."
— Ghouls, Gryphons, and Gadgets
The Greater of Two Evils
Dracula: The Modern Prometheus
A monstrous woman flees across Arctic sea ice, pursued by an implacable nemesis. Three shadowless brothers prowl through wolf-haunted forests in search of fresh victims. And in a subterranean laboratory, an undead Countess conducts a gruesome experiment…
Mina Harker’s journey to Transylvania is supposed to advance her career, but instead, it plunges her into a war between an ageless evil and a hideous new form of life. As the streets of London run red with blood, Harker takes up the wooden stake, crucifix, and Kukri knife against her nightmarish foes. But when one hunts monsters, a terrible price must be paid.
In this gender-flipped mashup of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, storylines and characters are combined in unexpected ways, and familiar horrors are transformed into new nightmares.
Reviews
“This book has that very elaborate writing that is quite common with a lot of books set in the Victorian era. This does a lot to convey a greater sense of time and place… It develops excellently, weaving the two stories together into a coherent whole.”
— Fangs for the Fantasy
“Chandler grabbed the best passages from each novel and stitched them together… This book is all killer, no filler and quite a page turner. A perfect read while waiting for trick or treaters!”
— Keith Stetson, author of Seco Creek Vigilance Committee
“Seeing Dracula and the Monster confront each other and pit themselves against each other in a battle of monster vs. monster in a story that is actually really good is every Victorian horror fan’s dream. The two stories were wound together almost seamlessly and it turned into a brilliant Gothic adventure.”
— Ghouls, Gryphons, and Gadgets
“I will not spoil all the details, but this mashup stands on its own among the rest of its horror mashup brothers and sisters. I was skeptical at first, despite the description since it is Dracula and Frankenstein after all. Combining these two is quite a stretch but Rafael pulled it off quite well.”
— Cayce, Netgalley review
“Just such a great idea I can’t believe no one has come up with it before… The author managed to take all the most interesting and relevant parts from both novels and edit them together into something new.”
— Devann, Goodreads review
“Chandler does a weird and impossible thing — he takes Frankenstein and Dracula and mixes and genderbends the two tales to create something else, which is unique — strangely depressing and entertaining at the same time. Reading this was no fun at all, and yet I was entertained. I knew the characters showing up, and yet they were new and different, but still themselves. I knew what was going to happen, and still was surprised by the turns and twists taken.”
— Kristian, Amazon review