Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula

One of the strangest and most interesting things I've read recently. Most of the book is an expanded and somewhat different account of the first section of Dracula, with Harker trapped in the Count's castle. That part is a fun read, with a lot of creepy detail, and a fun alternate version of the original story. After that, it appears that Valdimar was working from an outline, rather than an actual finished novel. This part of the book drops the conceit of presenting itself as a series of journals, letters, etc written by the protagonists and becomes a third person narrated list of plot points with very little connection between them, like a breathless grade school kid relating the plot of a movie they saw. It's actually sort of funny to read. Lucy (Lucia in this version) is introduced on page 224, is dead by page 236, it's remarked that Arthur believes she is rising from her grave at night, and no one does anything with this information. My favorite is the last chapter (‘The Count Killed'), which is all of two pages long and in which Seward disappears, is rescued, and goes mad, the asylum burns to the ground, he and Morris are injured, admitted to a hospital, and released, the group discovers Dracula's resting place, breaks in, and kills him (he briefly pops up when they discover him, with the narrator helpfully noting ‘...it was sundown!', but Van Helsing stabs him to death in the next sentence, so that's all right) . Two pages. I'm pretty sure the original has bits that go on for more than two pages just about Van Helsing soliloquizing about what a good moral women Mina is.