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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... gave some message to an elderly man in white shirt - sleeves , who had followed her to the door . He went , but immediately returned with a letter : - " My Friend . - Welcome to the Carpathians . I am anxiously expecting you . Sleep ...
... gave some message to an elderly man in white shirt - sleeves , who had followed her to the door . He went , but immediately returned with a letter : - " My Friend . - Welcome to the Carpathians . I am anxiously expecting you . Sleep ...
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... gave me a sort of shock , for I suppose the general superstition about midnight was increased by my recent experiences . I waited with a sick feeling of suspense . Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road - a ...
... gave me a sort of shock , for I suppose the general superstition about midnight was increased by my recent experiences . I waited with a sick feeling of suspense . Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road - a ...
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... gave me a thrill of pleasure . " I must regret that an attack of gout , from which malady I am a con- stant sufferer , forbids absolutely any travelling on my part for some time to come ; but I am happy to say I can send a sufficient ...
... gave me a thrill of pleasure . " I must regret that an attack of gout , from which malady I am a con- stant sufferer , forbids absolutely any travelling on my part for some time to come ; but I am happy to say I can send a sufficient ...
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... gave me a fright , for if there is no one else in the castle , it must have been the Count himself who was the driver of the coach that brought me here . This is a terrible thought ; for if so , what does it mean that he could control ...
... gave me a fright , for if there is no one else in the castle , it must have been the Count himself who was the driver of the coach that brought me here . This is a terrible thought ; for if so , what does it mean that he could control ...
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... gave them , which their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe , ay , and of Asia and Africa too , till the peoples thought that the were wolves themselves had come . Here , too , when they came , they found ...
... gave them , which their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe , ay , and of Asia and Africa too , till the peoples thought that the were wolves themselves had come . Here , too , when they came , they found ...
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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