When Rossi disappeared, Paul continued his quest with the help of another scholar, Helen, who had her own reasons for seeking the truth. Paul’s former adviser at Oxford, Professor Rossi, became obsessed with researching Dracula and was convinced that he was still alive. The letters are addressed to: “My dear and unfortunate successor.” The teen’s widowed father, Paul, reluctantly provides pieces of a haunting story it seems this menacing little book has a way of forcing itself on its owners, with frightening results. The book is blank, has a dragon and the words Drakulya on the cover, but that’s not what catches the girl’s attention it’s the letters stuffed inside the book. The Historian is a (long) historic novel about a 16-year-old girl living in Amsterdam in 1972, the young girl finds an ancient book in her father’s library. Hopefully more info on the flick will come in soon. So far there isn’t any solid info on the film, only that it’s planned. The Historian came out a few years ago and became a huge hit right off the bat, so making it into a movie isn’t a bad move judging on how big its fan base is. And, Rossi announced, ”Dracula - Vlad Tepes - is still alive.” After handing Paul a packet of notes, including some inscrutable maps, Rossi promptly vanished, leaving bloodstains on his blotter?and on the ceiling.Movie rumors, you gotta love ‘em right? Well the latest vampire movie rumor is that the immensely popular book, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, is being made into a movie. The real-life prince became known as Vlad the Impaler for the torture techniques he learned from the Ottomans, and later achieved immortality after Bram Stoker published his 1897 classic, Dracula. The receipt of the book turned out to be a kind of curse vaguely linked to the 15th-century Romanian sadist Vlad Tepes. When he showed the book to his academic adviser, Bartholomew Rossi, he learned that Rossi had received a similar book, in a similar fashion, when he was a young man.
He tried to get rid of it, but when he returned to his carrel, there it was again.
One night many years ago when he was a young graduate student, the volume unaccountably appeared on his library carrel. In 1972, while browsing in her father’s well-appointed library, the unnamed narrator, an American teenager living in Amsterdam, comes across a curious old book and a packet of yellowing letters addressed to ”My dear and unfortunate successor.” When she asks her father, a heretofore dull and overprotective diplomat named Paul, about her discovery, he begins an uncharacteristically thrilling tale.
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