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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... gone , and during his absence , the horses began to tremble worse than ever and to snort and scream with fright . I could not see any cause for it , for the howling of the wolves had ceased altogether ; but just then the moon , sailing ...
... gone , and during his absence , the horses began to tremble worse than ever and to snort and scream with fright . I could not see any cause for it , for the howling of the wolves had ceased altogether ; but just then the moon , sailing ...
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... gone through , and of all sorts of difficulties which might arise , but by forethought could be guarded against . I explained all these things to him to the best of my ability , and he certainly left me under the impression that he ...
... gone through , and of all sorts of difficulties which might arise , but by forethought could be guarded against . I explained all these things to him to the best of my ability , and he certainly left me under the impression that he ...
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... gone ! That key must be in the Count's room ; I must watch should his door be unlocked , so that I may get it and escape . I went on to make a thorough examina- tion of the various stairs and passages , and to try the doors that opened ...
... gone ! That key must be in the Count's room ; I must watch should his door be unlocked , so that I may get it and escape . I went on to make a thorough examina- tion of the various stairs and passages , and to try the doors that opened ...
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... gone to sleep on the sofa . He was very courteous and very cheery in his manner , and seeing that I had been sleeping , he said : — " So , my friend , you are tired ? Get to bed . There is the surest rest . I may not have the pleasure ...
... gone to sleep on the sofa . He was very courteous and very cheery in his manner , and seeing that I had been sleeping , he said : — " So , my friend , you are tired ? Get to bed . There is the surest rest . I may not have the pleasure ...
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... gone why may not another body go ? I have seen him myself crawl from his window . Why should not I imitate him , and go in by his window ? The chances are desperate , but my need is more desperate still . I shall risk it . At the worst ...
... gone why may not another body go ? I have seen him myself crawl from his window . Why should not I imitate him , and go in by his window ? The chances are desperate , but my need is more desperate still . I shall risk it . At the worst ...
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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