I have to strongly disagree with all who claim that this book is not scary. While the book takes a (welcome) turn from the mythical and supernatural vampire lore, it is anything but tame. The beauty and horror of Laslow is that it could actually have happened. Roderick Anscombe takes you inside the mind of the famous Translyvanian serial killer allowing you to glimpse what drives him to his deeds and also the disgust he feels for his own actions. He fights his dark desires while he can, but his "hunger" for blood always wins in the end. His pyschological obsession for it overcomes even the physical need portrayed in classical Vampire legend. All in all and excellent read, mind expanding and thought provoking. Silence of the Lambs meets Hamlet.

I read this book a few years ago and I couldn't put it down. I loved it! It was wonderfully written. It tells the story of how Count Dracula became Count Dracula in his own point-of-veiw. Robert Anscombe did a teriffic job of writing this book!

I have to strongly disagree with all who claim that this book is not scary. While the book takes a (welcome) turn from the mythical and supernatural vampire lore, it is anything but tame. The beauty and horror of Laslow is that it could actually have happened. Roderick Anscombe takes you inside the mind of the famous Translyvanian serial killer allowing you to glimpse what drives him to his deeds and also the disgust he feels for his own actions. He fights his dark desires while he can, but his "hunger" for blood always wins in the end. His pyschological obsession for it overcomes even the physical need portrayed in classical Vampire legend. All in all and excellent read, mind expanding and thought provoking. Silence of the Lambs meets Hamlet.

I thought Roderick's experience with mental health and forensics really offer an insight into the mind of a person with severe schizophrenic paranoid delusions - if you're not careful you even start believing the main character. The ending has a nice twist. For a person who wishes to one day work with people serving in maximum security prisons, I thought it was good.

After having doing some work inside a prision, I found this but to portray life for the inmates in a realistic way.

Read this book; it'll shock you and disturb you, but it will make you think!

This book is brilliant because the main character Dan Cody is incredibly deep and complex. You think you understand him - his story is at first a little hard to swallow, but eventually you believe him. Then slowly you are brought to question his sanity. Very subtly, you are shown so many sides and angles to him, that youre not sure which is real.

Previous reader with negative review must have a brain the size of a pea.