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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... head as she said again : " Oh , yes ! I know that ! I know that , but do you know what day it is ? ” On my saying that I did not understand , she went on : " It is the eve of St. George's Day . Do you not know that to - night , when the ...
... head as she said again : " Oh , yes ! I know that ! I know that , but do you know what day it is ? ” On my saying that I did not understand , she went on : " It is the eve of St. George's Day . Do you not know that to - night , when the ...
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... 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 driver saw it at the same moment ; he at once checked the horses , and , jumping to the ...
... 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 driver saw it at the same moment ; he at once checked the horses , and , jumping to the ...
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... head to foot , without a single speck of colour about him anywhere . He held in his hand an antique silver lamp , in which the flame burned without chimney or globe of any kind , throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the ...
... head to foot , without a single speck of colour about him anywhere . He held in his hand an antique silver lamp , in which the flame burned without chimney or globe of any kind , throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the ...
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... head , and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely else- where . His eyebrows were very massive , almost meeting over the nose , and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion . The mouth , so far as I could ...
... head , and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely else- where . His eyebrows were very massive , almost meeting over the nose , and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion . The mouth , so far as I could ...
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... head of my bed - I imagine that my rest is thus freer from dreams ; and there it shall remain . When he left me I went to my room . After a little while , not hearing any sound , I came out and went up the stone stair to where I could ...
... head of my bed - I imagine that my rest is thus freer from dreams ; and there it shall remain . When he left me I went to my room . After a little while , not hearing any sound , I came out and went up the stone stair to where I could ...
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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