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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... sort of sleep - waking , vague , unconscious way she opened her eyes , which were now dull and hard at once , and said in a soft , voluptuous voice , such as I had never heard from her lips : - " Arthur ! Oh , my love , I am so glad you ...
... sort of sleep - waking , vague , unconscious way she opened her eyes , which were now dull and hard at once , and said in a soft , voluptuous voice , such as I had never heard from her lips : - " Arthur ! Oh , my love , I am so glad you ...
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... sort of imaginative whirlpool ; if so my stay may be very interesting . ( Mem . , I must ask the Count all about them . ) I did not sleep well , though my bed was comfortable enough , for I had all sorts of queer dreams . There was a ...
... sort of imaginative whirlpool ; if so my stay may be very interesting . ( Mem . , I must ask the Count all about them . ) I did not sleep well , though my bed was comfortable enough , for I had all sorts of queer dreams . There was a ...
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... sort of way . He mum- bled out that the money had been sent in a letter , and that was all he knew . When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula , and could tell me anything of his castle , both he and his wife crossed themselves , and ...
... sort of way . He mum- bled out that the money had been sent in a letter , and that was all he knew . When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula , and could tell me anything of his castle , both he and his wife crossed themselves , and ...
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... sort of patch of grey light ahead of us , as though there were a cleft in the hills . The excitement of the passengers grew greater ; the crazy coach rocked on its great leather springs , and swayed like a boat tossed on a stormy sea ...
... sort of patch of grey light ahead of us , as though there were a cleft in the hills . The excitement of the passengers grew greater ; the crazy coach rocked on its great leather springs , and swayed like a boat tossed on a stormy sea ...
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... sort of shock , for I suppose the general superstition about midnight was increased by my recent experiences . I waited with a sick feeling of suspense . Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road - a long ...
... sort of shock , for I suppose the general superstition about midnight was increased by my recent experiences . I waited with a sick feeling of suspense . Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road - a long ...
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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