Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of – a labyrinth where the secrets of her father’s past and her mother’s mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.”

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Marti Davis, "'The Historian'– UT prof's spooky stories inspired author-daughter's best-selling novel", Knoxville News-Sentinel (3 July 2005). Access World News (subscription required). Retrieved 10 May 2009. When the narrator arrives at Saint-Matthieu-des-Pyrénées-Orientales, she finds her father. Individuals mentioned throughout the 1970s timeline converge in a final attempt to defeat Dracula. He is seemingly killed by a silver bullet fired into his heart by Helen. I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.” Stuff just happens. For no reason. Such as characters getting together romantically, well, just because. No build up, no logic, they just do because I guess they're both there and they have nothing better to do. Which leads me to... The Historian tells the history of Vlad Tepes (aka Count Dracula) and the modern story of Paul, a professor, and his sixteen year old daughter (who is unnamed) on their quest to find Vlad's tomb.

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Bron Sibree, "Dracula rides again", The Courier Mail (24 September 2005). LexisNexis (subscription required). Retrieved 7 May 2009. Kostova wanted to write a serious literary novel, with scholarly heroes, that was at the same time reminiscent of 19th-century adventures. [5] She was inspired by Victorian writers such as Wilkie Collins; his novel The Moonstone (1868), with its plot twists and bevy of narrators, was "a major model". [20] The primary literary ancestor of The Historian, however, is Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). [2] For example, in The Historian and Dracula, the protagonist is both fascinated and repulsed by Dracula. [21] Both are told through a series of letters and memoirs. [22] The Historian also includes many intertextual references to Stoker's work– Dracula even owns a copy of the novel. [23] Yet, Kostova shapes Dracula into her own character. While Stoker's vampire is the focus of his novel, Kostova's is at the edges. Moreover, the blend of the fictional Dracula and the historical Vlad "adds a sinister and frightening edge" to the character, according to scholar Stine Fletcher. [24] Susan Balee, "On a scholarly hunt for bad old Vlad's tomb", The Philadelphia Inquirer (12 July 2005). LexisNexis (subscription required). Retrieved 7 May 2009. I wanted to write an adventure story in which the heroes were not Indiana Jones but scholars: librarians, archivists, historians." The Historian is Buffy with Books. It is dedicated to her father, an academic who started to tell her versions of the Dracula stories when he and the family moved to Slovenia on placement. "Once I heard one, I wanted more," she says. "For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places." It was very hard to refuse because I had worked really hard to make a living to even support this habit," says Kostova. "I spoke to my husband. He said, 'You need to do whatever is right for your book because you poured so much time and love into it for 10 years'."It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.”