Mystery Play
A Novel
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Mystery Play
Narrated by:
Maggi-Meg Reed, Charles Linshaw, Lisa Flanagan, Nicholas Guy Smith, Kirsten Potter
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After his beloved mother passes away suddenly, Jay Turner finds himself at a crossroads. She was always secretive, and when he returns to their Boston home to clear out her possessions, he finds an unusual item: a partially burned scrap of newspaper bearing the name “Gael Brogan.” Soon after, a deliveryman leaves behind a package containing a small antique volume bound in leather—and two bloody footprints.
The sight of the volume is chilling. As a young scholar, his mother had been given the medieval book—one of a set commissioned by Vlad Țepeș, otherwise known as Dracula, just before his death in 1477. She'd always warned Jay of the dangers associated with it, and had donated it to a museum before she died . . . yet here it is, back in his possession.
Jay sets out to learn more about Gael Brogan, a prominent nineteenth-century actor whose last and most famous role was based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. As Jay begins to dig deeper—with the help of a mysterious woman named Rhiannon—he uncovers the frightening story of a young actress who fell under Brogan's sway long ago. Before long, Jay and Rhiannon realize that something similarly implacable is pursuing them.
In this epic and riveting tale, Elizabeth Kostova takes us deep into the Gilded Age of the theater and across the Atlantic in pursuit of an ancient evil and its dramatic followers.
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Critic reviews
Praise for The Historian
“[Elizabeth] Kostova’s knowledge of occult arcana is impressive, and she packages her erudition in a graceful narrative.”—The New Yorker
“Kostova has done something quite extraordinary. . . . She has refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Part thriller, part history, part romance . . . Kostova has a keen sense of storytelling and she has a marvelous tale to tell.”—The Baltimore Sun
“Hypnotic . . . a thrill ride through history.”—The Denver Post
“Kostova’s vampire is no campy Lugosi knockoff. . . . Blending history and myth, Kostova has fashioned a version so fresh that when a stake is finally driven through a heart, it inspires the tragic shock of something happening for the very first time.”—Newsweek
“Kostova excels at the kind of quirky details that bring her characters to vivid life.”—The Seattle Times
“[Elizabeth] Kostova’s knowledge of occult arcana is impressive, and she packages her erudition in a graceful narrative.”—The New Yorker
“Kostova has done something quite extraordinary. . . . She has refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Part thriller, part history, part romance . . . Kostova has a keen sense of storytelling and she has a marvelous tale to tell.”—The Baltimore Sun
“Hypnotic . . . a thrill ride through history.”—The Denver Post
“Kostova’s vampire is no campy Lugosi knockoff. . . . Blending history and myth, Kostova has fashioned a version so fresh that when a stake is finally driven through a heart, it inspires the tragic shock of something happening for the very first time.”—Newsweek
“Kostova excels at the kind of quirky details that bring her characters to vivid life.”—The Seattle Times
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