Dracula: Rise of the Beast - David Thomas Moore

Genesis of a Monster
Vlad III Drăcula. A warleader in a warlike time: brilliant, charismatic, pious. But what became of him? What drove him to become a creature of darkness-Bram Stoker's cruel, ambitious "Un-Dead"-and what use did he make of this power, through the centuries?
More than a hundred years after the monster's death, the descendants of the survivors piece together the story-dusty old manuscripts, court reports from the Holy Roman Empire at its height, stories of the Szgany Roma who once served the monster-trying to understand. Because the nightmare is far from over...
Five incredible fantasy authors come together to reveal a side to literature's greatest monster you've never seen before.