Becoming Dracula: The Early Years of Bela Lugosi, Volume 1 (ebook)

Upon purchase, you will automatically receive a file containing an .epub file that can be opened and read in any e-reader. Thanks. Nominated for the Rondo Award! The cobwebs of time and space are finally cleared.  Drawing on years of research across four countries, excavating and analyzing thousands of yellowed documents in archives as well as every digitized source, Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger shine light from their candelabrum onto a long-forgotten past, onto the creation of a legend.  Becoming Dracula is a two-volume biography covering Bela Lugosi’s life from his birth to 1930, when he first played the famous vampire onscreen.   “No one has chronicled the life and career of Bela Lugosi with more precision than Gary Rhodes. With Becoming Dracula: The Early Years of Bela Lugosi, Volume One, Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger detail Lugosi’s heretofore obscure early life in Austria-Hungary with a level of focused research akin to literary paleontology. As fascinating as the future