DraculaIt is perhaps one of the best known and most influential novels in all of literature: 1897's Dracula didn't merely inspire countless adaptations for stage and film, it invented an entire genre of horror: the vampire story, which continues to evolve today into wildly varied directions, from noir detective pastiches (the vampire as night-owl P.I.) to tween romances (the vampire as dreamy but distant boyfriend). Anyone who wants to know where it all began must read this 1897 work, still startling and still terrifying even today. The story of English solicitor Jonathan Harker and his strange new client, Transylvanian aristocrat Count Dracula, this is the classic work of Victorian gothic horror, the continuing eerie wellspring of many of our cultural fantasies and nightmares. Irish author ABRAHAM STOKER (1847-1912) worked for more than a quarter of a century as manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which drew him into London's literary and artists circles; he was a friend of such luminaries as writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Stoker is also the author of The Lair of the White Worm (1911), among other books. |
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... believe it . All at once we heard the crow of a cock coming up with preternatural shrillness through the clear morn- ing air ; Count Dracula , jumping to his feet , said : – - " Why , there is the morning again ! How remiss I am to let ...
... believe it . All at once we heard the crow of a cock coming up with preternatural shrillness through the clear morn- ing air ; Count Dracula , jumping to his feet , said : – - " Why , there is the morning again ! How remiss I am to let ...
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... believe that it was ever there . " Take care , " he said , " take care how you cut yourself . It is more dan- gerous than you think in this country . " Then seizing the shaving glass , he went on : " And this is the wretched thing that ...
... believe that it was ever there . " Take care , " he said , " take care how you cut yourself . It is more dan- gerous than you think in this country . " Then seizing the shaving glass , he went on : " And this is the wretched thing that ...
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... believe my eyes . I thought it was some trick of the moonlight , some weird effect of shadow ; but I kept looking , and it could be no delusion . I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones , worn clear of the mortar by ...
... believe my eyes . I thought it was some trick of the moonlight , some weird effect of shadow ; but I kept looking , and it could be no delusion . I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones , worn clear of the mortar by ...
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... believe that it was all sleep . I was not alone . The room was the same , unchanged in any way since I came into it ; I could see along the floor , in the brilliant moon- light , my own footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long ...
... believe that it was all sleep . I was not alone . The room was the same , unchanged in any way since I came into it ; I could see along the floor , in the brilliant moon- light , my own footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long ...
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... believe you clean grit , right through to the very depths of your soul . Tell me , like one good fellow to another , is there any one else that you care for ? And if there is I'll never trouble you a hair's breadth again , but will be ...
... believe you clean grit , right through to the very depths of your soul . Tell me , like one good fellow to another , is there any one else that you care for ? And if there is I'll never trouble you a hair's breadth again , but will be ...
Contents
Letter Dr Seward to Hon Arthur Holmwood | 98 |
Lucy Westenras Diary | 109 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 230 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 259 |
Dr Sewards Phonograph Diary spoken by Van Helsing | 270 |
Dr Sewards Diary | 276 |
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