Becoming Dracula

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The cobwebs of time and space are finally cleared. Drawing on years of research</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>across four countries excavating and analyzing thousands of yellowed documents</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in archives as well as every digitized source Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>shine light from their candelabrum onto a long-forgotten past onto the creation</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>of a legend. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Becoming Dracula</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a two-volume biography covering Bela Lugosi's life</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>from his birth to 1930 when he first played the famous vampire on screen.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By presenting a staggering wealth of well researched details Gary D. Rhodes and Bill</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kaffenberger create not only the context but the humanity of Lugosi becoming Dracula. Their</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>portrait-in-words is nuanced revealing and sympathetic but still preserves the mystery and</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>majesty of this most charismatic of actors. They introduce the reader to the Hungarian-American</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>subculture in which Lugosi found himself when he arrived on the shores of the United States.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lugosi was initially the big fish in that small pond but the authors portray his emergence into</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the vast ocean of Broadway and Hollywood and the fascination Lugosi created with his unique</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>presence there. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - Steve Haberman screenwriter of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dracula: Dead and Loving It</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (1995) and </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Silent Screams: The History of the Silent Horror Film</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (Midnight</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>                         Marquee 2010)</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>