More Heroes and The Historian

In a long earlier post, I talked about parallels between the novel The Historian and the television show Heroes. I have an update based on last night's episode. As before, there are spoilers ahead so consider yourself alerted.

I have finished the book, and things really got moving there in the last 100 pages! I don't know how you get a 600+ book published as your debut novel, but I think some editing may have been in order (then again I suppose the original manuscript might have been 800 pages).

Anyway, in last night's episode of Heroes, two of the affected characters (mind-reader guy and radiation guy) are together, trying to figure out where their abilities came from. The discover they were both abducted, lost a couple of days, and each has scars on their neck in the form of two short lines spaced closely together.

In The Historian, some of the main characters working to find Dracula are attacked (by Dracula or his minions)  and of course end up with the classic vampire bite marks in the neck.

In Heroes, there are hints that there is a secret organization tracking people with hero-like abilities.

In The Historian, there is a secret organization dedicated to tracking (and hunting) the vampires.

I'll update next week with any more plot convergences!

[update: I'm now tagging all of these posts with heroes-historian]