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 3
... dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz , which is a very interesting old place . Being practically on the frontier - for the Borgo Pass leads from it into Bukovina - it has had a very stormy exis- tence , and it certainly shows ...
... dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz , which is a very interesting old place . Being practically on the frontier - for the Borgo Pass leads from it into Bukovina - it has had a very stormy exis- tence , and it certainly shows ...
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... dark mistiness the gloom of the trees , oak , beech , and pine , though in the valleys which ran deep between the spurs of the hills , as we ascended through the Pass , the dark firs stood out here and there against the background of ...
... dark mistiness the gloom of the trees , oak , beech , and pine , though in the valleys which ran deep between the spurs of the hills , as we ascended through the Pass , the dark firs stood out here and there against the background of ...
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... dark , rolling clouds overhead , and in the air the heavy , oppressive sense of thunder . It seemed as though the mountain range had separated two atmospheres , and that now we had got into the thunderous one . I was now myself looking ...
... dark , rolling clouds overhead , and in the air the heavy , oppressive sense of thunder . It seemed as though the mountain range had separated two atmospheres , and that now we had got into the thunderous one . I was now myself looking ...
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... darkness of the Pass . As I looked back I saw the steam from the horses of the coach by the light of the lamps , and ... dark- ness I felt a strange chill , and a lonely feeling came over me ; but a cloak was thrown over my shoulders ...
... darkness of the Pass . As I looked back I saw the steam from the horses of the coach by the light of the lamps , and ... dark- ness I felt a strange chill , and a lonely feeling came over me ; but a cloak was thrown over my shoulders ...
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... darkness . Suddenly , away on our left , I saw a faint flickering blue flame . The driver saw it at the same moment ; he at once checked the horses , and , jumping to the ground , disappeared into the darkness . I did not know what to ...
... darkness . Suddenly , away on our left , I saw a faint flickering blue flame . The driver saw it at the same moment ; he at once checked the horses , and , jumping to the ground , disappeared into the darkness . I did not know what to ...
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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