Dan Simmons - Children of The Night

A special thanks to Byron Preiss and Richard Curtis for making me write about Dracula in the first place. And thank you to Chris Pepe at Putnam's for her patience and enthusiasm.

In the USA, Romania, Hungary, and Austria:

An inadequate but sincere thanks to Claudia Logerquist for her research, linguistic skills, stamina, courage, and spirit of adventure.

Finally, I would like to acknowledge my debt to Radu R. Florescu and Raymond T. McNally, authors of Dracula: Prince of Many Faces, In Search of Dracula, and other works. Their writings have almost singlehandedly renewed: interest in the historical Vlad Dracula, and I recommend their books to the interested reader. (One caveat for the serious Draculaseeker, howeverthe caption under the photograph of the only extant bust of Vlad Tepes on p. 170 of Dracula: Prince of Many Faces says that the statue is to be found in the village of Copitineni [sic]. In truth, the bust is to be found not in the shadow of Castle Dracula in Cäpätineni, but across from the old palace grounds in Tirgoviste some 100 km. away.)

Thanks to the research of these men and other scholars, I can say that all of the memories I ascribe to Vlad Dracula in this book, with the possible exception of the Sacrament, are true.