Psychiatrist and novelist RODERICK ANSCOMBE. He oversees a psychiatric ward at a hospital outside of Boston, and has written a new novel that retells the dracula myth, "The Secret Life of Laszlo Count Dracula," (Hyperion). Anscombe says he wanted to "humanize" Dracula, making him more a man than a monster. In writing the book, ANSCOMBE drew on his previous experience working with the criminally insane.
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