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 11
... silence which held them than even when they howled . For myself , I felt a sort of paralysis of fear . It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can under- stand their true import . All at once the ...
... silence which held them than even when they howled . For myself , I felt a sort of paralysis of fear . It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can under- stand their true import . All at once the ...
Page 12
... silence where I was , for I did not know what to do . Of bell or knocker there was no sign ; through these frowning walls and dark window openings it was not likely that my voice could penetrate . The time I waited seemed endless , and ...
... silence where I was , for I did not know what to do . Of bell or knocker there was no sign ; through these frowning walls and dark window openings it was not likely that my voice could penetrate . The time I waited seemed endless , and ...
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... silent , and has grown into manhood in my service . He shall be ready to attend on you when you will during his stay , and shall take your instructions in all matters . " The Count himself came forward and took off the cover of a dish ...
... silent , and has grown into manhood in my service . He shall be ready to attend on you when you will during his stay , and shall take your instructions in all matters . " The Count himself came forward and took off the cover of a dish ...
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... silent for a while ; and as I looked towards the win- dow I saw the first dim streak of the coming dawn . There seemed a strange stillness over everything ; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of ...
... silent for a while ; and as I looked towards the win- dow I saw the first dim streak of the coming dawn . There seemed a strange stillness over everything ; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of ...
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... silence ? How was it that all the people at Bistritz and on the coach had some terrible fear for me ? What meant the giving of the crucifix , of the garlic , of the wild rose , of the mountain ash ? Bless that good , good woman who hung ...
... silence ? How was it that all the people at Bistritz and on the coach had some terrible fear for me ? What meant the giving of the crucifix , of the garlic , of the wild rose , of the mountain ash ? Bless that good , good woman who hung ...
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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