"Andrea Mastrovito resettles Bram Stokers`s horror novel in a present-day world where London and Transylvania make way for a strangely dormant New York and the civil-war torn Syria respectively. The resettlement that makes Count Dracula revive in the existing world is based on Mastrovito`s meticulous substitution of any geographical, historical, cultural and anthropological reference from the original text with contemporary ones. Thanks to Mastrovito`s work, the resurgence of Dracula`s story in today`s world unveils how today`s fear toward strangers and fearful approaches to alterity lay indeed very far back in the past.
The book includes 16 illustrations from the animated film “NYsferatu” by Andrea Mastrovito." (From NY Dracula back cover).
NY Dracula was launched on October 7, 2017, at Printed Matters, Inc. in New York, accompanied by a screening of NYsferatu - Symphony of a Century and a talk with the artist.