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In news that pleases me greatly, Bleeding Cool have revealed that Harker, the graphic novel sequel to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, has been optioned for a possible big screen movie.

Harker, which is published by Markosia, is written by Tony Lee and drawn by Neil Van Antwerpen and Peter-David Douglas, is the only such sequel is approved by members of the Stoker family… It also happens to be one of my favourite books of last year and as a comic fanboy it made my day to get my copy signed by Lee at last October’s McM Expo.

Markosia publisher Harry Markos has released a statement (via Bleeding Cool) regarding the story:

Although it’s something that we weren’t announcing at San Diego, we can confirm that the original graphic novel ‘From The Pages Of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’: Harker’ by Tony Lee, Neil Van Antwerpen and...

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Call me crazy, but Bram Stoker's Dracula (the book, not the movie) ends pretty definitively. Dracula gets a bowie knife in the heart, and crumbles into dust in the red sun of the Transylvanian dawn. The wiggle room has been taken care of in a score of movies, books, and television shows -- and we have plenty of new vampire stories, so must we really dig up Dracula again? Well, according to ShockTillYouDrop, yes.

They say a sequel is coming -- and this time it's getting a literary and big screen outing. For the first time, the Stoker estate has authorized an official Dracula sequel titled Dracula: The Undead. Written by Dacre Stoker, Bram's great-grandnephew, and Dracula historian Ian Holt, the story uses characters and plot threads that were edited out of Stoker's original novel in 1897. It hits store shelves in October 2009, just in time for Halloween. And...

A few days back we told you about Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt’s new novel, Dracula: The Un-dead. It had been purchased by Harper UK but now we learn from Publisher’s Weekly that Dutton publisher Brian Tart won the domestic rights.

The last time the Stoker family gave its seal of approval to a Dracula project was the 1931 Universal film starring Bela Lugosi.

The deal was concluded by Danny Baror of Baror International and Ken Atchity of Atchity Entertainment International who have sold international publishing rights to the book which will be released in October 2009.

Atchity will also act as producer, with Blue Tulip’s Jan de Bont (Speed), on the film adaptation which they hope to have before the cameras by June. A screenplay adaptation has already been completed by Holt and Alexander Galant.

Dutton’s parent company, Penguin USA, has also announced that a previously unpublished version of the 1987 novel,...

With Twilight about a month away, vampire fans have a new movie to devour. But soon, they'll get to go back to the beginning. For the first time since the original Dracula film in 1931, the descendants of Bram Stoker have given their full approval for a sequel that will be published in October 2009, with a film version of the story beginning production next summer.

Shock Till You Drop reports that the great-grandnephew of Stoker, Dacre Stoker, has sold the rights to a new story to Penguin-Canada. The story is a co-creation of writer Alexander Galant and Dracula documentarian and historian Ian Holt, who probably has the most popular house on the block every Halloween.

The writers gained access to Stoker's original hand-written notes from Dracula, which should provide a good foundation for the continuation of the story, which the younger Stoker claims, "includes characters and plot threads that had been...