The women history remembers as Dracula’s brides have always been little more than shadows lurking at the edges of someone else’s story. In The Brides, Charlotte Cross drags them into the light and gives them voices of their own, crafting a Gothic horror novel that is as interested in the dangers facing women as it is in the dangers lurking within Castle Dracula itself.
Releasing July 7, 2026, The Brides is a feminist Gothic horror novel that reimagines the origins of Dracula’s infamous brides through the perspectives of the women who fell under his influence—and the one who escaped.
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