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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Page 18
... blood of men , patriots or invaders . In old days there were stirring times , when the Austrian and the Hungarian came up in hordes , and the patriots went out to meet them - men and women , the aged and the children too - and waited ...
... blood of men , patriots or invaders . In old days there were stirring times , when the Austrian and the Hungarian came up in hordes , and the patriots went out to meet them - men and women , the aged and the children too - and waited ...
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... blood was trickling over my chin . I laid down the razor , turning as I did so half round to look for some sticking plaster . When the Count saw my face , his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury , and he sud- denly made a grab at ...
... blood was trickling over my chin . I laid down the razor , turning as I did so half round to look for some sticking plaster . When the Count saw my face , his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury , and he sud- denly made a grab at ...
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... blood of those old witches , who , expelled from Scythia , had mated with the devils in the desert . Fools , fools ! What devil or what witch was ever so great as Attila , whose blood is in these veins ? " He held up his arms . “ Is it ...
... blood of those old witches , who , expelled from Scythia , had mated with the devils in the desert . Fools , fools ! What devil or what witch was ever so great as Attila , whose blood is in these veins ? " He held up his arms . “ Is it ...
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... blood were amongst their leaders , for our spirit would not brook that we were not free . Ah , young sir , the Szekelys - and the Dracula as their heart's blood , their brains , and their swords - can boast a record that mushroom ...
... blood were amongst their leaders , for our spirit would not brook that we were not free . Ah , young sir , the Szekelys - and the Dracula as their heart's blood , their brains , and their swords - can boast a record that mushroom ...
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... blood . I was afraid to raise my eyelids , but looked out and saw perfectly under the lashes . The girl went on her knees , and bent over me , sim- ply gloating . There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and ...
... blood . I was afraid to raise my eyelids , but looked out and saw perfectly under the lashes . The girl went on her knees , and bent over me , sim- ply gloating . There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and ...
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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