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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9608855"><p>To be fair, Ravenloft novels have often heavily featured Strahd. And while he isn't the protagonist of Dracula, he gets plenty of moments of dialogue and action (the whole opening is Harker being his guest at Dracula's Castle). So you get a lot of Dracula at the start. But that is a fair point. I don't think the issue is how much screen time Strahd gets or not (some Gothic Horror the villains looms, some the villain is the focus). It is more about the attitude. To me it looks more like an urban fantasy cover or something like Buffy. To me someone mentioned YA, and I think that is spot on. Most of us old Ravenloft fans came of age before Harry Potter, and all the YA style works that followed. I get that YA is huge now. And so maybe it does make fiscal sense to go after that market. But this isn't a tone I would want from a Ravenloft book. I think most of the older Ravenloft fans, even ones who would otherwise be arguing with each other over DoD versus Red or Black Box), are having a very similar reaction to this cover art. Some are having an easier or harder time looking past that cover. The cover does seem to be prompting a pretty similar response</p></blockquote><p></p>