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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... wait a day or two before starting . It was all very ridiculous but I did not feel comfortable . However , there was ... waiting for the coach , which is , of course , late ; and the crucifix is still round my neck . Whether it is the old ...
... wait a day or two before starting . It was all very ridiculous but I did not feel comfortable . However , there was ... waiting for the coach , which is , of course , late ; and the crucifix is still round my neck . Whether it is the old ...
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... waited with a sick feeling of suspense . Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road - a long , agonised wailing , as if from fear . The sound was taken up by another dog , and then another and another , till ...
... waited with a sick feeling of suspense . Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road - a long , agonised wailing , as if from fear . The sound was taken up by another dog , and then another and another , till ...
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... waited seemed endless , and I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me . What sort of place had I come to , and among what kind of people ? What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked ? Was this a customary incident in the ...
... waited seemed endless , and I felt doubts and fears crowding upon me . What sort of place had I come to , and among what kind of people ? What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked ? Was this a customary incident in the ...
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... wait the coming of the morning . Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approach- ing behind the great door , and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light . Then there was the sound of rattling chains and ...
... wait the coming of the morning . Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approach- ing behind the great door , and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light . Then there was the sound of rattling chains and ...
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... wait for me.-D. " I set to and enjoyed a hearty meal . When I had done , I looked for a bell , so that I might let the servants know I had finished , but I could not find one . There are certainly odd deficiencies in the house ...
... wait for me.-D. " I set to and enjoyed a hearty meal . When I had done , I looked for a bell , so that I might let the servants know I had finished , but I could not find one . There are certainly odd deficiencies in the house ...
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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