Dracula - The Connoisseur's Guide
Review by Bloofer, submitted on 19-Oct-1997

I was sent a copy of that book a few months ago. One thing you need to beware of. While there is some new material, he makes the fatal error of including the "Calendar" from his earlier annotated edition of _Dracula_, obviously without updating it. This results in at least two blunders:

1. he states that Dracula was destroyed on November 8 (which, by the way, is also Stoker's birthday). That just is not so!

2. on page 11, he berates critics who refer to Dracula's castle as Castle Dracula stating "It is not a term that Stoker ever uses". But he (Wolf) forgets that he himself used the term in that Calendar and he leaves it in! (see entry for May 4). How deliciously ironic!

Other than that, it's a very good read, even if I do not agree that Stoker had a homosexual attraction to Henry Irving.