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The long awaited sequel to the “Frank Braun trilogy”. “Vampire” is the final book of the series written by German author Hanns Heinz Ewers, in an uncensored translation for the first time by Joe Bandel. The first two books in the series are “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and “Alraune”, also translated by Joe Bandel. The previous English language translation of this book was heavily censored and missing around 150 pages! It was also banned in the United States and allied countries presumably because it spoke of the “Steigler Afair” named after then Secretary of State Steigler before the United States officially entered World War I.

In the book Ewers speaks of hundreds if not thousands of German Americans including Jewish Americans that wanted to go to the “Fatherland” and help Kaiser Wilhelm fight the war. They bought passage on steamers headed for Germany and were instead sent directly to prisoner of war camps in France and England. This was before the United States officially entered the war.

This book is largely biographical and speaks of Frank Braun being trapped here in the United states because of the war raging in Europe. He reconnects with an old flame, Lotte Lewi, who is now a rich widow and begins to work as a German propagandist for the German cause in an effort to keep the United States out of the war in Europe. But he experiences strange attacks of weakness that leave him helpless. It slowly comes out that something is taking all his energy, but is Lotte the vampire or is it him!

This book is available from Lulu publishing as a hardcover, paperback and as a Kindle ebook.