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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... face from us . I could only see the gleam of a pair of very bright eyes , which seemed red in the lamplight , as he turned to us . He said to the driver : — " You are early to - night , my friend . " The man stammered in reply : — " The ...
... face from us . I could only see the gleam of a pair of very bright eyes , which seemed red in the lamplight , as he turned to us . He said to the driver : — " You are early to - night , my friend . " The man stammered in reply : — " The ...
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... face to face with such horrors that he can under- stand their true import . All at once the wolves began to howl as though the moonlight had had some peculiar effect on them . The horses jumped about and reared , and looked helplessly ...
... face to face with such horrors that he can under- stand their true import . All at once the wolves began to howl as though the moonlight had had some peculiar effect on them . The horses jumped about and reared , and looked helplessly ...
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... face was a strong - a very strong - aquiline , with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils ; with lofty domed fore- head , and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely else- where . His eyebrows were ...
... face was a strong - a very strong - aquiline , with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils ; with lofty domed fore- head , and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely else- where . His eyebrows were ...
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... face made his smile look malignant and saturnine . Presently , with an excuse , he left me , asking me to put all my papers together . He was some little time away , and I began to look at some of the books around me . One was an atlas ...
... face made his smile look malignant and saturnine . Presently , with an excuse , he left me , asking me to put all my papers together . He was some little time away , and I began to look at some of the books around me . One was an atlas ...
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... face , his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury , and he sud- denly made a grab at my throat . I drew away , and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix . It made an instant change in him , for the fury passed ...
... face , his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury , and he sud- denly made a grab at my throat . I drew away , and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix . It made an instant change in him , for the fury passed ...
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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