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    The Sleep of Reason
    The Sleep of Reason
    The Sleep of Reason
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    The Sleep of Reason

    By Lee A. Matthias

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    A Movie Length Tale™ from Aisle Seat Books™.

    A riveting prequel to the Dracula story. After his bride disappears on their European honeymoon, a man traces her to a castle ruin in the Carpathian mountains, and confronts its undead inhabitants, determined to restore her to life and bring her home. An apocalyptic war of Good versus Evil.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAisle Seat Books
    Release dateApr 13, 2012
    ISBN9781935655572
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      Book preview

      The Sleep of Reason - Lee A. Matthias

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      A Movie Length

      Classical Horror Tale

      For Readers

      13 and up.

      Written by

      Lee A. Matthias.

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      Copyright © 2012 Lee A. Matthias

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-935655-57-2

      ISBN-10: 1-935655-57-4

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012930940

      Published by Aisle Seat Books, an imprint of

      GrayBooks LLC

      1 Main Street

      Lyme, New Hampshire 03768

      www.Tales2Film.com

      www.AisleSeatBooks.com

      Electronic Edition

      About Tales2Film™ and Aisle Seat Books™

      Read a good movie lately?

      Every good movie starts with a script, and every good script tells a riveting story. Long before the actors are chosen and the filming starts, a writer sits down, crafts that story, and submits it for consideration by the producers, directors, and other creative talents in the film industry. It can take a long time. A script may spend years making the rounds before getting the elusive Hollywood green light. If it ever does. Some of the greatest movies ever written are ones that none of us will ever see on the screen.

      Tales2Film finds the best of those not-yet-produced tales and brings them to you as Movie Length Tales™ just as the writer envisaged them. Each of the tales in this series has been converted by the script’s writer from the technical shorthand of screenplay format into the familiar prose format you see here, a process called novelization.

      These little books are not novels, or even novellas. Think of them as written movies. Like the screenplays they come from, each is presented in real time, written in the present tense to allow you to see the movie’s scenes in your mind’s eye as if they were unfolding on a theater’s screen before you.

      So. Here’s a movie. Take your favorite aisle seat and enjoy it.

      And when it’s over, take a look at out Featured Previews in the back of this book. Your next Movie Length Tale™ is already here...

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      Classical Horror

      Ages 13 and up

      Theater lights dim.

      Fade in:

      El sueno de la razon produce monstruous

      The sleep of reason produces monsters

      —Francisco de Goya

      AMERICA—NEW ORLEANS—SPRING, 1862:

      Richard Renfield, a tall Englishman in his early 20s, travels aboard a riverboat in the deep south. As he looks at the approaching city, an off-screen narrator speaks:

      June twenty-fourth, eighteen-ninety-five. Therapist: Dr. Manfred Devorer. Subject: R.M. Renfield, age fifty-seven, Carfax Asylum resident these twenty-six years. Mr. Renfield’s case has grown curious. He’s begun to exhibit increased agitation, an air of anticipation, excitement. He claims he is ‘preparing for the arrival of his master’…

      The boat approaches the dock.

      I cannot help but wonder as to what or to whom he is referring. Since Mr. Renfield has not had contact with friends or family, nor has he been visited by anyone for at least two decades, I can only surmise that this ‘master’ to whom he refers is either someone from before his arrival at Carfax, or some internal friend…

      Ashore, the fall of New Orleans looms: Confederate troops rush about, preparing defenses.

      The few remaining records hint at a traumatic episode when he was a young solicitor on a business trip in America during the Southern Rebellion. Having spent a life of leisure filled with athletic contests and social puffery, upon his graduation from Cambridge and hiring by his father’s firm, he was sent out on the thinnest of pretexts in order to pull him up from amongst the idlers his father saw him frequenting.

      The elegant riverboat docks. As the passengers mass on deck, a crowd assembles to greet them.

      Aboard, Renfield, tall and vigorous, stands first in line.

      Ramp in place, he steps down and off.

      A compact man in his 30s steps up to meet him. Mr. Renfield? I am Fabian Valdemar. Your father’s office in London engaged me to be your guide while you are in New Orleans.

      They shake hands and walk toward a baggage collection area along the dock.

      Very pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr. Valdemar, Renfield replies. My father has spoken highly of your services to our firm in the past. I look forward to a fruitful stay here in your charming city.

      He picks out two bags. Valdemar takes them from him and turns to a cab-man who takes and loads them aboard his carriage.

      I’d prefer to walk if the hotel is not far, says Renfield.

      Of course, Monsieur Renfield. It is just a short distance. Shall I have the driver take your bags to the hotel?

      That would be appreciated.

      Renfield reaches for his money clip but Valdemar waves him off and pays instead.

      The cab moves off, and they proceed into the bustling city.

      Your journey downriver since arriving at Montreal was uneventful, I trust?

      It was…quiet. The river country was beautiful, but…empty. I hope the war has not disrupted things too much.

      It is not going well at present. There is fear that the Federal Navy will attack and seize the city.

      Do you think it will affect our plans?

      If anything, monsieur, it will improve things. War is good for business, I am sad to say.

      Amidst all the activity, they stroll on.

      >>

      They walk through the city, avoiding people, wagons, horses, and the inevitable heaps of manure.

      They approach a hotel, the St. Croix.

      >>

      In the lobby, they move to the reception desk.

      >>

      Entering a suite, they are shown his room by a bellman.

      Renfield opens a window and looks out as Valdemar pays the man at the door.

      Renfield turns to face Valdemar.

      Where would you like to dine this evening, monsieur? Valdemar asks him.

      Setting one bag on a stand, Renfield opens it. I’m fascinated by some of the tastes I’ve sampled in America, he replies. Select a place you’ve liked in the past.

      Oui, monsieur. Shall I come by at eight o’clock, then?

      That would be fine.

      THAT EVENING:

      Renfield and Valdemar sit at a table in the crowded dining room of an elegant and well-appointed restaurant.

      Near them, a large and commanding man in his 40s dines at a table with three men. He appears wealthy and powerful.

      The large man rises and walks, limping, out of the room.

      Renfield notices him and looks over to Valdemar.

      Gerard Dessalines, Valdemar tells him. One of the wealthiest men in New Orleans. His fortune was made through cotton exporting.

      Renfield nods, returning to his meal.

      One year ago, when the war began, Monsieur Dessalines became an officer for the Confederacy. Unfortunately, he was wounded at Manassas and had to retire from service. He has limped ever since.

      A gallant effort nonetheless, nods Renfield.

      After a moment, Dessalines returns, a look of anger on his face.

      Valdemar leans closer to speak quietly. Rumors say that he was shot running away in the face of a Federal charge.

      A woman in her early 20s enters. She is something to behold: soft and beautiful with a sunny demeanor. She is dressed neatly, if poorly.

      She approaches Dessalines and whispers

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