For the next book publication, I teamed up with Dacre Stoker and John E. Browning, and managed to engage a literary agent who believed in the book. Powers of Powers was released om 7 February 2017 and attracted international attention; my article for Literary Hub was clicked 30,000 times in the first week.

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20 x 24 cm, 309 pages, B/W illustrations, hard cover. ISBN: 978-3-943-55900-2.

I started working on this book prokect as early as October 2012; I visited London, Dublin and was in Romania over a dozen times to explore routes and make photos. In 2013, I invited Dacre Stoker to join me and together we made a promotion tour through Romania in November of that year. Alas, our publishing efforts were crossed by my discovery of the newspaper serialization of Makt myrkranna; from January 2014 on, I focused on the Nordic variants of Dracula.

Status: typeset in InDesign. Agents: See Information for Literary Agents

When Powers of Darkness was published, the buzz also reached Sweden and triggered the discovery of an even older Swedish newspaper serialization based on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Again, I got hold of high-resolution scans and was surprised to see that these 1899 newspaper editions had been illustrated with pen drawings. The linework did not look well on the scans, though, and it took a lot of work to restore its original vigor and clarity. Coloring the images added atmosphere and vivacity. The book with 55 images, and introductory essay and translated fragments to accompany the images was published in Ocober 2021 as a hardcover volume after a successsful crowdfunding campaign.

Status: First edition published in October 2021. Materials for an expanded edition have been prepared. Agents: See Information for Literary Agents

Like the Amsterdam City Views, this collection resulted from my background research for HIDDEN SIN. Between 1870 and 1900, the draughtsman and carpenter, later director of the Technical School Jacob Olie documented how Amsterdam was growing and changing; his photos show the city in a state that now irrevocably belongs to the past. And like with the other picture book projects I have in the pipeline, the existing digital image files needed a professional digital restoration, to reveal the scenes as Olie saw them through his lens—instead of the dirt, scratches, fingerprints and hairs that have gathered on the glass plates since his death.

Status: Over 40 images restored, background information sorted. Image files vary in size from 12 till 36 Megapixels; all images suitable for high-quality print and screen display.
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This E-book, that will be available as a printed edition as well, was published by Transilvania University Press at the start of 2022 as a special issue of the Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brașov, Series IV. This volume in PDF format with 250 illustrated pages was edited by Magdalena Grabias (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland), Cristian Pralea, Florin Nechita (TUB, Brașov) and me. For the print edition, I did the final editing. ISSN 2066-768X.

Another free E-book released in December 2021, again using my own  Rainbow Village/Moonlake Editions imprint. This text deals with hypnotism, thought-reading, spiritualism, and other esoteric phenomena that were intensely practiced and discussed in London during the Victorian Age. My essay traces with which scientists and opinion makers Bram Stoker was in touch and how this influenced the writing of Dracula.

PDF format, 53 pages A4, ca. 24,000 words, illustrated, ca. 9.4 Mb. Rainbow Village/Moonlake. ISBN number: 978 3 943559 03 3. Release date: December 31, 2021.

The existence of Mörkrets makter, the first genuine adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel, was announced in March 2017, shortly after the publication of my book Powers of Darkness. But it took five years before a first English translation of the Dagen version (271 k words in Swedish) became finally available to an international audience.

As the foremost expert for the Nordic versions of Dracula, I was invited to contribute an introductory essay for this volume.  My essay deals with the various discoveries related to the earliest Dracula serials: the Hungarian version in Budapesti Hírlap, the first US serial in the Chicago Inter Ocean, the two Swedish variants, and the Icelandic adaptation for Fjallkonan. It attempts to demonstrate that the Swedish serializations probably were the result of the growing international cooperation of the press during the 1890s, rather than an enterprise managed and authorized by Bram Stoker.

Moreover, I substantially contributed to the annotation of the translation, and provided a license for a series of edited illustrations. Further essays (focusing on racism and xenophobia in the Swedish version) were contributed by Tyler Tichelaar and Sezin Koehler. Published by William Trimble, Chicago, who also wrote an "Editor's Note" reporting on his discoveries. ISBN: 978-1-7923-8545-2. Available via Amazon (Kindle), Kobo, Barnes & Noble and Goodreads.