www.ereleases.com: Roll over Edward Cullen, and tell Sookie Stackhouse the news. “Incarnadine: The True Memoirs of Count Dracula” comes to bookstores this month (and to Amazon, etc. online). And despite the boom in vampire sagas, author R. H. Greene thinks he has something unique to offer.

“It’s for grown-ups, for one thing,” Greene says of the first installment in his two-part Dracula “memoir.” “I’ve never read a ‘Twilight’ novel, but I see Robert Pattinson everywhere I look, like everybody else. It does seem a bit like we’re in the Hannah Montana era of gothic fiction, doesn’t it? There’s even an Edward Cullen Barbie Doll coming out. I think they’re accessorizing him as a stewardess.

“Incarnadine is hoping to reach more traditional readers. People who will hopefully like having their assumptions challenged a little bit.”

In the memoir, Dracula tells the story of his life before he became a vampire, and of his own unholy transformation and that of his three “wives.” The action begins in the late Middle Ages during the last great battles of the Turkish invasion of Eastern Europe, and ends with the first meeting between Dracula and Bram Stoker’s protagonist Jonathan Harker. Dracula’s adventures in Victorian England are the subject of “The Charnel House,” aka “Memoirs Two,” completed last July and currently being rewritten.

Read more here.

Confession time: At first I wondered if I would be interested in this book at all, it kind of sounded like “been there, done that”, but I was wrong. This sounds very interesting and cool. I would love to have more added to the Dracula story and I like that Greene is taking a more tradition Vamp angle on this. I also love that this is not a YA book; I am starting to miss my adult books! 😉

Are you interested in reading “Incarnadine: The True Memoirs of Count Dracula”?