The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula

When Dracula, a young Hungarian medical student, arrives in Paris in 1866, he becomes obsessed with young and beautiful Stacia. Their affair ends violently, and Dracula flees back to Hungary, where another young beauty captures his twisted imagination. He spirals deeper and deeper into blood lust and the desire for ultimate possession. Written as a journal, this erotic, chilling tale reveals Dracula as an educated man with serious moral flawsunable to escape his fantasies and reconcile his inner dichotomy, that of a doctor who is bound by oath to help and mend, and an unstoppable killer feeding on his victims blood.

Roderick Anscombe is a forensic psychiatrist and assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School. Throughout his career, he has treated the most violent and psychotic patients in Massachusetts, including serial killers, stalkers, and the criminally insane. In addition to his fiction, Dr. Anscombe has published articles in scholarly journals on psychotherapy and the unconscious. He is the author of The Interview Room and lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.