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 7
... seen outside the hotel at Bistritz - the sign of the cross and the guard against the evil eye . Then , as we flew along , the driver leaned forward , and on each side the passengers , craning over the edge of the coach , peered eagerly ...
... seen outside the hotel at Bistritz - the sign of the cross and the guard against the evil eye . Then , as we flew along , the driver leaned forward , and on each side the passengers , craning over the edge of the coach , peered eagerly ...
Page 13
... seen , that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same per- son to whom I was speaking ; so to make sure , I said interrogatively : - " Count Dracula ? " He bowed in a courtly way as he replied : - “ I am Dracula ; and I bid you ...
... seen , that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same per- son to whom I was speaking ; so to make sure , I said interrogatively : - " Count Dracula ? " He bowed in a courtly way as he replied : - “ I am Dracula ; and I bid you ...
Page 16
... seen a servant any- where , or heard a sound near the castle except the howling of wolves . Some time after I had finished my meal - I do not know whether to call it breakfast or dinner , for it was between five and six o'clock when I ...
... seen a servant any- where , or heard a sound near the castle except the howling of wolves . Some time after I had finished my meal - I do not know whether to call it breakfast or dinner , for it was between five and six o'clock when I ...
Page 18
... seen the blue flames . He then explained to me that it was commonly believed that on a certain night of the year - last night , in fact , when all evil spir- its are supposed to have unchecked sway — a blue flame is seen over any place ...
... seen the blue flames . He then explained to me that it was commonly believed that on a certain night of the year - last night , in fact , when all evil spir- its are supposed to have unchecked sway — a blue flame is seen over any place ...
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... seen him , since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me . In starting I had cut myself slightly , but did not notice it at the moment . Having answered the Count's salutation , I turned to the glass again to see ...
... seen him , since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me . In starting I had cut myself slightly , but did not notice it at the moment . Having answered the Count's salutation , I turned to the glass again to see ...
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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