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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... passed , and the sun is high over the distant horizon , which seems jagged , whether with trees or hills I know not , for it is so far off that big things and little are mixed . I am not sleepy , and , as I am not to be called till I ...
... passed , and the sun is high over the distant horizon , which seems jagged , whether with trees or hills I know not , for it is so far off that big things and little are mixed . I am not sleepy , and , as I am not to be called till I ...
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... passed Cszeks and Slovaks , all in picturesque attire , but I noticed that goitre was painfully prevalent . By the roadside were many crosses , and as we swept by , my companions all crossed themselves . Here and there was a peasant man ...
... passed Cszeks and Slovaks , all in picturesque attire , but I noticed that goitre was painfully prevalent . By the roadside were many crosses , and as we swept by , my companions all crossed themselves . Here and there was a peasant man ...
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... passing , I struck a match , and by its flame looked at my watch ; it was within a few minutes of midnight . This gave me a sort of shock , for I suppose the general superstition about midnight was increased by my recent experiences . I ...
... passing , I struck a match , and by its flame looked at my watch ; it was within a few minutes of midnight . This gave me a sort of shock , for I suppose the general superstition about midnight was increased by my recent experiences . I ...
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... passed as through a tunnel ; and again great frowning rocks guarded us boldly on either side . Though we were in shelter , we could hear the rising wind , for it moaned and whistled through the rocks , and the branches of the trees ...
... passed as through a tunnel ; and again great frowning rocks guarded us boldly on either side . Though we were in shelter , we could hear the rising wind , for it moaned and whistled through the rocks , and the branches of the trees ...
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... passed across the face of the moon , so that we were again in darkness . When I could see again the driver was climbing into the calèche , and the wolves had disappeared . This was all so strange and uncanny that a dreadful fear came ...
... passed across the face of the moon , so that we were again in darkness . When I could see again the driver was climbing into the calèche , and the wolves had disappeared . This was all so strange and uncanny that a dreadful fear came ...
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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