Thus Spoke Nosferatu

The shadow falls first. Then comes the Count. Thus Spoke Nosferatu is an atmospheric retelling of the classic vampire tale - a story of dread, desire, and the ancient darkness that moves through a world that believes it has outgrown its fears. Thomas Hutter leaves the quiet German town of Wisborg for the mountains of Transylvania, commissioned by his eccentric employer to finalize a property sale with the reclusive Count Orlok. His wife Ellen's warnings go unheeded. The strange symbols on the Count's letters go unread. And Hutter, a man of rational ambition and ordinary courage, crosses into the Carpathians without understanding what awaits him - or what will follow him home. What follows is a novel of creeping, inexorable dread: a story about how the ancient and the monstrous move through ordinary lives, how love and terror are sometimes the same force wearing different faces, and how some shadows, once they fall on a town, never fully lift.