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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... late . Buda - Pesth seems a wonderful place , from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets . I feared to go very far from the station , as we arrived late and would start as near the ...
... late . Buda - Pesth seems a wonderful place , from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets . I feared to go very far from the station , as we arrived late and would start as near the ...
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... late ; and the crucifix is still round my neck . Whether it is the old lady's 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 ...
... late ; and the crucifix is still round my neck . Whether it is the old lady's 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 ...
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... late - lying snow . Sometimes , as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us , great masses of greyness , which here and there bestrewed the trees , produced a pecu- liarly weird and ...
... late - lying snow . Sometimes , as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us , great masses of greyness , which here and there bestrewed the trees , produced a pecu- liarly weird and ...
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... late companions crossing themselves . Then the driver cracked his whip and called to his horses , and off they swept on their way to Bukovina . As they sank into the dark- ness I felt a strange chill , and a lonely feeling came over me ...
... late companions crossing themselves . Then the driver cracked his whip and called to his horses , and off they swept on their way to Bukovina . As they sank into the dark- ness I felt a strange chill , and a lonely feeling came over me ...
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... late , and my people are not avail- able . Let me see to your comfort myself . " He insisted on carrying my traps along the passage , and then up a great winding stair , and along another great passage , on whose stone floor our steps ...
... late , and my people are not avail- able . Let me see to your comfort myself . " He insisted on carrying my traps along the passage , and then up a great winding stair , and along another great passage , on whose stone floor our steps ...
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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