The Book of Renfield

The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula

First edition
Author	Tim Lucas
Cover artist	Melissa Isriprashad
Language	English
Genre	Gothic horror
Publisher	Touchstone Books (Simon & Schuster) (original) Riverdale Avenue Books (revised)
Publication date	June 2005 (original) April 2023 (revised)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages	403 pp (original) 290 pp (revised)
ISBN	0-7432-4354-4

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The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula is a 2005 novel written by Tim Lucas.^[1] It is the first of the mashup horror-themed novels that rose to commercial prominence later in the decade. It is an unofficial prequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Like the original novel, Renfield is an epistolary novel written in series of written documents. It focuses mainly on Renfield, mostly remembered for his minor role in Dracula as a lunatic that ate flies, rodents and other animals, and Dr. John Seward, the administrator of an insane asylum who is trying to understand Renfield's psychosis.^{[citation needed]}