Dinner with Dracula: Being the Weird Adventures of Archeologist Charles Winterbottom with Azathoth, Cthulhu, a certain Prince of the Undead, the Dark Gods of Lemuria, the Yeti Queen – And Other Terrifying Creatures of the Night.
Joe Vadalma
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· 1 ratings · 259 pages · Published: 01 Feb 2009
fans of Weird Tales laughing themselves sick and set H. P. Lovecraft spinning
in his grave. Charles Winterbottom thinks he's a heroic-adventurer
archeologist in the mode of Indiana Jones. But if he's not, Winterbottom at
least gets into more deadly perils in a day than Indiana does in a year. It's
getting out of them that's hard! Discovering an unknown civilization in an
underground catacomb, Winterbottom is immediately captured by the
inhabitants and sentenced to be fed to the demon god Azathoth for
desecrating a sacred place. As he stares in to the vast, reeking maw of
Azatoth, about to be eaten and shaking in his boots, Winterbottom has not
one clue about how to escape. And if knew what lay ahead – encounters with
supernatural beings infinitely more terrifying than Azatoth! – Winterbottom
would throw himself voluntarily down that demon's gaping maw. Beyond, and
infinitely more deadly, than all those perils, at the end of his adventure lies
an elegant dinner with a well-known Transylvanian count – with Winterbottom
as the main course! Dinner with Dracula is a screwball take on a certain Mythos, and is sure to remind readers of the wacky landscapes and characters of Piers Anthony, Terry Prachett, Robert Adams, and Randall Garrett.
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