

Most vampires in the series are created when a human drinks the blood of another vampire, which he claims he never did. According to the character, he refused to die "by a transcendent act of will", but it is apparent that even he is uncertain how he really became a vampire. Saberhagen depicts Dracula as the historical voivode Vlad Ţepeş (known as Drakulya, meaning "Dragon") who, in Saberhagen's stories, became a vampire after being assassinated. The Dracula Tape is the story of Bram Stoker's Dracula told from Dracula's point of view. Saberhagen's Dracula novels are based on the premise that vampires are morally equal to normal humans: they have the power to do good or evil it is their choice. Naturally in my contrarian way I wondered what he was really doing and thinking while the other characters made their plans to hunt him down, and as soon as I started listening for his voice, I heard it."


Saberhagen was inspired to write the first novel in the series, The Dracula Tape, as a result of "re-reading Stoker's original, and being struck by the fact that this titanic character was hardly ever on stage, though of course central to the book. This is complete list of works by American science fiction and fantasy author Fred Saberhagen.
