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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... fear , or the many ghostly traditions of this place , or the crucifix itself , I do not know , but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual . If this book should ever reach Mina before I do , let it bring my good - bye . Here ...
... fear , or the many ghostly traditions of this place , or the crucifix itself , I do not know , but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual . If this book should ever reach Mina before I do , let it bring my good - bye . Here ...
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... fear - meaning movements which I had seen outside the hotel at Bistritz - the sign of the cross and the guard against the evil eye . Then , as we flew along , the driver leaned forward , and on each side the passengers , craning over ...
... fear - meaning movements which I had seen outside the hotel at Bistritz - the sign of the cross and the guard against the evil eye . Then , as we flew along , the driver leaned forward , and on each side the passengers , craning over ...
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... fear . The sound was taken up by another dog , and then another and another , till , borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass , a wild howling began , which seemed to come from all over the country , as far as the ...
... fear . The sound was taken up by another dog , and then another and another , till , borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass , a wild howling began , which seemed to come from all over the country , as far as the ...
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... fear . The driver , however , was not in the least disturbed ; he kept turning his head to left and right , but I could not see anything through the darkness . Suddenly , away on our left , I saw a faint flickering blue flame . The ...
... fear . The driver , however , was not in the least disturbed ; he kept turning his head to left and right , but I could not see anything through the darkness . Suddenly , away on our left , I saw a faint flickering blue flame . The ...
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... fear . It is only when a man feels himself 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 ...
... fear . It is only when a man feels himself 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 ...
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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