Dracula Unredacted is intended as a role playing game prop, and I originally started reading it because we're playing the Dracula Dossier campaign. Quite quickly though I fell back into the original story with a little added spice. The premise of the Dracula Dossier is that vampires not only exist, but that MI6 repeatedly tried to recruit Dracula. The original Stoker novel was actually a redacted report based on the papers of the various handlers, published as fiction in order to ridicule any leaks. This is the full dossier, with not only some added mentions and differences in details (dates, places, people...) but also annotated by three generations of MI6 spies. With one exception, it's impossible to tell the additions to the text, and the annotations add a layer of questioning and mystery that is not only a hook for the game, but an interesting twist to the reading. I wouldn't recommend Dracula Unredacted if you're not playing the game, but if you are it's really worth taking the plunge and reading the whole thing.
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