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The Drums of Dracula

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Charles Comments: Dracula Runs the Voodoo Down

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Published 1976

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 7.90 out of 10)
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22 Responses to “The Drums of Dracula”

  1. Bruce A Munro Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 10:03 am

    Look out! It’s a vampire! And he has a knife!

  2. THX 1139 Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 11:01 am

    The drums of Dracula! The guitar of Frankenstein’s Monster! The bass of The Wolfman! And The Mummy on vocals – oh, wait a minute, that wouldn’t work…

  3. fred Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 11:29 am

    And he’s stoned! And he’s having a bad hair day!

  4. Max Bathroom Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    “I tell you what, lads, I’m not biting that Amy Winehouse ever again.”

  5. Tor Mented Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 12:38 pm

    Even when going to voodoo country, don’t forget to bring the opera cape.

  6. THX 1139 Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 1:38 pm

    The Groovy Ghoulies extended universe was a non-starter.

  7. Bruce A Munro Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 3:16 pm

    GSS, @THX 1139.

    That’s an unusual color for Dracula: looks like he’s been feeding mostly on hepatitis sufferers.

    “Devilish Voodoo Slaves?” Dude, the fact they’re _slaves_ kinda justifies their use of Voodoo against the White Man. Or do you mean slaves _to_ Voodoo? In which case, clarify your terms.

  8. Francis Boyle Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 5:15 pm

    Drac looks like he’s about to throw up. I don’t know how barfing vampires would work but there’s probably a South Park episode about it.

  9. Tat Wood Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 5:21 pm

    The precise moment when Alun Armstrong realised it was time to quit ‘New Tricks’.

  10. Ikari Gendo Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 5:45 pm

    We can’t stop here, this is bat country!

  11. JuanPaul Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 6:17 pm

    The heat in voodoo land is intense. Drac is wishing he packed shorts.

  12. Tracy Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 6:47 pm

    He must have sucked some blood from a pinkeye sufferer as he’s got a bad case of conjunctivitis in his left eye.

  13. Bibliomancer Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 7:23 pm

    Keith Moon really looked like hell near the end

  14. THX 1139 Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 7:48 pm

    Ray Reardon’s had it up to HERE with you going on about Hurricane Higgins.

  15. B. Chiclitz Says:
    June 3rd, 2021 at 10:03 pm

    And of course the anguished look on his face is the result of yet another ghoul impaling his own palm by forgetting about his extra long and sharpened fingernails while gripping the knife much too tightly. When will they ever learn?

  16. GSS ex-noob Says:
    June 4th, 2021 at 3:04 am

    Drac looks thoroughly bored by his drums and indeed everything. Must have drained a stoner on 4/20, or a swath of Skid Row.

    The other cover was much better — it seemed to illustrate the pulpy content promised in the blurb. Nobody wants to read about vampire ennui, or hear him whining about the brides that got away.

    Possibly the long centuries have not been kind to Drac, his intellect, and looks. He’s got an “Eric Tr*mp” look about him…

    @THX: GSS.

    @Bruce, Tracy: so we might all be converging on the Skid Row hypothesis?

  17. Bruce A Munro Says:
    June 4th, 2021 at 6:12 am

    @GSS ex-noob: well, he certainly doesn’t look like he’s been eating _healthy_ lately. Maybe the artist got confused about the plot and tried to draw a half-vampire, half-zombie?

  18. Tor Mented Says:
    June 5th, 2021 at 1:44 pm

    The Drams of Drunkula.

  19. A. R. Yngve Says:
    June 8th, 2021 at 11:31 am

    DRACULA
    By Charles Bukowski

  20. Emster Says:
    April 3rd, 2022 at 3:21 am

    I’ll see your Devilish Voodoo Slaves and raise you one SCTV Count Floyd Monster Chiller Horror Theater Smellorama 3D:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6_uL3Az8w

  21. GSS ex-noob Says:
    April 3rd, 2022 at 11:08 pm

    @Emster: Really scary, huh kids?

    (I see you’re doing like I did when I arrived, and working your way back through the archives. That way lies madness. And LOLs.)

  22. Emster Says:
    April 4th, 2022 at 12:52 am

    Working my way back – yes, yes! It’s my kind of madness! A website collection of gloriously horrid scifi book covers, submitted by scifi fans, gleefully critiqued by all, with an occasionally interesting tidbit of scifi trivia or link shared (thank ya!). Doesn’t get much cooler than this.

    I’m sure many of my comments are only funny in my own mind, but our gracious GSS host has been kind enough to let me post them anyway… so far…

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