During this time, Jack Seward has become a morphine addict obsessed with destroying the undead, Arthur Holmwood hides behind his loveless marriage, Mina's remaining taint from Dracula has caused her to retain her youth, and Jonathan Harker drowns his sorrows and insecurities in alcohol and prostitutes.

Quincey fervently reads the novel and researches Dracula, discovering he was a real-life Romanian prince nicknamed Vlad the Impaler.

Basarab is angry with the portrayal of Dracula as a monster, and decides to accept the role if only to right what he sees as slander to a national hero.

The detective, Cotford, insinuates that Van Helsing orchestrated both Jonathan and Seward's deaths, believing him to be Jack the Ripper.

Mina also consumes some of Báthory's blood, giving her visions of the latter's horrible past as an abused 15-year-old wife of Ferenc Nádasdy who was shunned by her family because of her homosexual tendencies.

He and Quincey meet Van Helsing, who reveals that it was he who gave their story to Bram Stoker as a guide to future generations encountering the undead, and asks that the two join him.

Realizing that Van Helsing's earlier rants about the supernatural were real after all, Cotford attempts to save Mina by getting her onto a London Underground train.

The two fight, and Dracula is overpowered and nearly killed, but Mina's quick thinking saves him, as Báthory is yanked from the train via a loose cable.

During the trip, Dracula says the real reason he came to London 25 years ago was to hunt Báthory, who was slaughtering women under the guise of Jack the Ripper.

In consuming the tainted blood he put into Mina years ago, Dracula is shocked to find himself healed and his strength renewed.

Dracula takes solace that his son is safe and succumbs to his wounds, falling off a cliff and bursting into flames as the sun rises.

Dracula scholar Leslie S. Klinger, writing for the Los Angeles Times, wrote that he did not consider the book to really be a sequel to Dracula because "no author would permit a sequel that boldly claims the original got the story wrong", but that it was "a fine book in its own right, one that pushes the story in unexpected directions while remaining true to the dark heart of the Transylvanian vampire-king".

[3] Michael Sims of The Washington Post wrote, "Stoker and Holt dump everything into their furiously boiling kettle of clichés – bucketfuls of gore, creepy sex, a torture scene that comes across as lesbian vampire porn.

[4] Sandy Amazeen of Monsters and Critics felt that "the pace is good and there are a few new plot twists, but not enough to make up for the overall canned feel of this disappointing attempt to redraw some old roles".

[5] Bruce G. Smith of Blogcritics wrote, "It's quite realistic, scarily so, which makes Dracula the Un-dead a sequel worthy of the original.

[7] Moira Macdonald wrote in the Seattle Times "it's an odd piece of work, bearing about as much resemblance to the original as Bela Lugosi does to Robert 'Twilight' Pattinson".

[9] Winnipeg Free Press reviewer Kenneth MacKendrick called it "tempting enough to read and bad enough to be controversial, striking a balance between sensationalism and mediocrity".