Ultrasylvania
In an alternate 19th-century Europe, Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster aren't lurking in the dark—they're world leaders fighting to hold their nations together.
📖 Third Option Press • Started 2012
Forget the coffins and the moans. In Ultrasylvania, the monsters didn’t lurk in the shadows of 19th-century Europe—they seized the throne rooms. In this inventive alternate history, Dracula and Frankenstein’s Monster don’t haunt the darkness as legends but stand at the head of nations, struggling to hold their countries together amid assassination plots, romantic betrayal, and the backstabbing intrigue of continental politics.
Created by writer Brian Schirmer and artist Jeremy Saliba, with striking work from emerging Academy of Art University talent, the self-published series reinterprets classic horror icons in fascinating new roles. Across three collected volumes—King Dracula (2012), Emperor Frankenstein (2013), and The Book of the Damned (2014)—the tale broadens from muddy politics to span distant pasts and far futures, where power, deception, and matters of the heart collide.
Published by Third Option Press, all three volumes are now collected in a complete-series edition. Perfect for fans of political intrigue, Penny Dreadful-style gothic settings, and alternate-history fiction like Leviathan. Pick up the collected volumes on Amazon.
