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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Page 13
... moved impulsively forward , and holding out his 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 ...
... moved impulsively forward , and holding out his 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 ...
Page 29
... moved downwards in a sidelong way , some hundred feet down , and a good deal to the left . He vanished into some hole or win- dow . When his head had disappeared , I leaned out to try and see more , but without avail - the distance was ...
... moved downwards in a sidelong way , some hundred feet down , and a good deal to the left . He vanished into some hole or win- dow . When his head had disappeared , I leaned out to try and see more , but without avail - the distance was ...
Page 33
... moved as though there were some living thing within it . For answer he nodded his head . One of the women jumped forward and opened it . If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail , as of a half - smothered child ...
... moved as though there were some living thing within it . For answer he nodded his head . One of the women jumped forward and opened it . If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail , as of a half - smothered child ...
Page 37
... moved . When they were all unloaded and packed in a great heap in one corner of the yard , the Slovaks were given some money by the Szgany , and spitting on it for luck , lazily went each to his horse's head . Shortly afterwards , I ...
... moved . When they were all unloaded and packed in a great heap in one corner of the yard , the Slovaks were given some money by the Szgany , and spitting on it for luck , lazily went each to his horse's head . Shortly afterwards , I ...
Page 64
... moved as though he were praying . After a few minutes ' silence , he got up , shook hands with me , and blessed me , and said good - bye , and hobbled off . It all touched me , and upset me very much . I was glad when the coastguard ...
... moved as though he were praying . After a few minutes ' silence , he got up , shook hands with me , and blessed me , and said good - bye , and hobbled off . It all touched me , and upset me very much . I was glad when the coastguard ...
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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