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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... hand which caught my arm in a grip of steel ; his strength must have been prodigious . Without a word he shook his reins , the horse's turned , and we swept into the darkness of the Pass . As I looked back I saw the steam from the ...
... hand which caught my arm in a grip of steel ; his strength must have been prodigious . Without a word he shook his reins , the horse's turned , and we swept into the darkness of the Pass . As I looked back I saw the steam from the ...
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... hand to assist me to alight . Again I could not but notice his prodigious strength . His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have crushed mine if he had chosen . Then he took out my traps , and placed them on the ground ...
... hand to assist me to alight . Again I could not but notice his prodigious strength . His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have crushed mine if he had chosen . Then he took out my traps , and placed them on the ground ...
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... hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince , an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice - more like the hand of a dead than a living man . Again he said : - " Welcome to my house . Come freely ...
... hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince , an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice - more like the hand of a dead than a living man . Again he said : - " Welcome to my house . Come freely ...
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... hand to the table , and said : - " I pray you , be seated and sup how you please . You will , I trust , excuse me that I do not join you ; but I have dined already , and I do not sup . " " " I handed to him the sealed letter which Mr ...
... hand to the table , and said : - " I pray you , be seated and sup how you please . You will , I trust , excuse me that I do not join you ; but I have dined already , and I do not sup . " " " I handed to him the sealed letter which Mr ...
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... hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight , and they had seemed rather white and fine ; but seeing them now close to me , I could not but notice that they were rather coarse - broad , with squat fingers . Strange to say , there ...
... hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight , and they had seemed rather white and fine ; but seeing them now close to me , I could not but notice that they were rather coarse - broad , with squat fingers . Strange to say , there ...
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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