Vampyre: A Costa Rican Folktale Merges Dracula Fact and Fiction

Conceptual decorator and comic publication creator Ricardo Delgado made his people connected Dracula with 2021's Dracula of Transylvania, a publication that re-imagined Bram Stoker's iconic villain arsenic "a implicit horror." Now Delgado has a follow-up to that terrifying book, 1 that blends information and fabrication to make Vampyre: A Costa Rican Folktale.

With the crowdfunding run for Vampyre: A Costa Rican Folktale present live, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the book. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Vampyre: A Costa Rican Folktale is simply a 200-page illustrated caller that features a premix of humanities maps, Delgado's illustrations, and photos of real-world locations. The publication is published successful a premix of English and Spanish. The publication tells a communicative acceptable successful the aforesaid satellite arsenic Dracula of Transylvania, successful this lawsuit successful 1940s Costa Rica.

“Part folktale. Part autobiography. This gruesome caller is simply a captivating solemnisation of municipality legends, fearfulness stories and the powerfulness they clasp implicit us,” said Clover Press Publisher Hank Kanalz successful a statement. “Inspired by elements of the classical 1980's illustrated novella Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King and Berni Wrightson, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Costa Rican folklore, Delgado weaves his household past into an ambitious caller multi-media mythology that indispensable beryllium seen and work to beryllium believed.”

The Kickstarter run for Vampyre: A Costa Rican Folktale is unrecorded now.

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