Peter Tennant’s Case Notes

Author: Pete

2 Aug

THE JOURNAL OF PROFESSOR ABRAHAM VAN HELSING by ALLEN C. KUPFER
Forge paperback, 204pp, $9.95

With The Journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsing, a book being deliberately marketed to cash in on the success of The Historian, Allen C. Kupfer falls back on the old trick of the fake document, in this case a spoof diary, allegedly left to the author‚Äôs grandfather Daniel, who was a friend of the vampire hunter and disappeared in mysterious circumstances years after coming to America as an immigrant, and found in the attic after the death of his grandmother. Kupfer is blas?© about this, cheerfully owning up to the fact that it contains inconsistencies with the text of Dracula and anachronisms, such as Van Helsing‚Äôs use of the word ‚Äòinfrastructure‚Äô, giving the impression that he doesn‚Äôt much care if we believe in its authenticity or not, simply wanting to be spared the unwelcome attention its publication has brought him.

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