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THE THIRD NOVEL BY NATHANIEL G. MOORE



THE DRACULA POEMS



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“We learn from failure, not from success!”
-BRAM STROKER, DRACULA




It’s the 1960s in Canada, and Harrison Fisher is a forty-nine-year old television writer, who has spent several years working on a successful cartoon called, Dracula’s Castle. His personal passion is ancient Roman history and he continues to edit a novel he has written called, The Sparrow’s Ghost. As his attempts at publication and fame fail, Harrison descends into a drunken spiral, destroys his manuscript and inadvertently writes a bestseller. Or so he thinks…




COMEDIAN AND TRAGIC FIGURE ALLAN SHERMAN





A childhood staple for the author since the summer of 1988, when, in addition to Allan Sherman songs, he was listening to The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Salt 'N Pepa, Beastie Boys, New Order and other pop deities. It was Sherman's biting criticism of modern life, his stark, fearless voice, his sadistic self-annihilation and underplayed triumphs that captured the future ReLit winning novelist's heart. Rest in peace.



LOCKED OUT OF HIS OWN TIMELINE




The author's own timeline is off limits in the new novel, the first since Savage 1986-2011. However, the author was able to use his experience in conjuring up the macabre story of his family of origin as fodder for getting into the time period, (The story centers around the author's grandfather and father who were entwined in a faith healing cult in downtown Toronto, seven years before his birth.) However, that chapter of the author's past is permenantly closed and won't be resurrected anytime soon.



RELIGION AS A THEME



Religion has been a subject of great interest throughout history. There was a book a while back, The Bible, which had an impact on society. Writers began to include religious influence in their poetry, books and film. Lilies of the Field, a 1963 film, adapted from William Edmund Barrett, starred a young Sidney Poitier, who won Best Actor at the Academy Awards in 1964. The film was nominated for a total of five Academy Awards.



ALCOHOL: THE PROZAC OF THE 1960s





Since mental health didn't really exist in the 1960s, the protagonist, loves to drink Prince Igor vodka. And why not? His penthouse is two blocks away from the factory. Advertising billboards for the locally manufactured liquor appear as large and as menacing as the sun and the moon in his hometown of Grimsby, Ontario.



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ABOUT THE AUTHOR



Nathaniel G. Moore is a writer and publicist grateful to be living on the traditional territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Wəlastəkewiyik. (Fredericton) in New Brunswick. Originally from Toronto, he is the author of Savage 1986-2011 (winner of the ReLit Award for Best Novel), and was co-editor of Toronto Noir. He is the owner of moorehype and also dabbles in abstract art.