Dracula Visits Egypt

About this book

Can monsters feel nostalgia? And can the land of the sun grant warmth to one who lived centuries in the frost of dark castles? In the winter of 2011, while the world watched in astonishment the revolution of a people that never bends, there was a "visitor" of a special kind watching the scene through his screens in Transylvania. Count "Vlad Tepes" - famous as Dracula - found in the blood flowing in the squares no mere lavish "feast," but a riddle he could not fathom: how can a people face death with all this passion and life? The king of vampires decides to leave his elegant ebony coffin and his gloomy palace, to settle in the heart of Cairo officially as a Romanian count descended from a royal family. But what Dracula did not count on is that "the human spirit" he thought had died inside him five hundred years ago, might begin to awaken under the spell of the East and the glances of an Egyptian girl called Hala. Between Cairo's crowded alleys and the revolution's din, Dracula finds himself torn between his nature as a knight of darkness, and strange human feelings making him taste "moussaka" instead of blood, and experience the pains of jealousy and fear for one he loves. "Dracula Visits Egypt" is no mere horror novel, but a deep philosophical journey into the soul's nature, the struggle of existence, and the power of love that may be the only one capable of taming the fiercest monsters. It is a tale of identity, of a people that never breaks, and of the beast who may find his salvation in the heart of the crowd.