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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... watch , said to the others something which I could hardly hear , it was spoken so quietly and in so low a tone ; I thought it was " An hour less than the time . " Then turn- ing to me he said in German worse than my own : - " There is ...
... watch , said to the others something which I could hardly hear , it was spoken so quietly and in so low a tone ; I thought it was " An hour less than the time . " Then turn- ing to me he said in German worse than my own : - " There is ...
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... 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 waited with a sick feeling of suspense . Then a dog began ...
... 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 waited with a sick feeling of suspense . Then a dog began ...
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... watch the driver's motions . He went rapidly to where the blue flame arose - it must have been very faint , for it did not seem to illumine the place around it at all - and gathering a few stones , formed them into some device . Once ...
... watch the driver's motions . He went rapidly to where the blue flame arose - it must have been very faint , for it did not seem to illumine the place around it at all - and gathering a few stones , formed them into some device . Once ...
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... watch - case or the bottom of the shaving - pot , which is fortunately of metal . When I went into the dining - room , breakfast was prepared ; but I could not find the Count anywhere . So I breakfasted alone . It is strange that as yet ...
... watch - case or the bottom of the shaving - pot , which is fortunately of metal . When I went into the dining - room , breakfast was prepared ; but I could not find the Count anywhere . So I breakfasted alone . It is strange that as yet ...
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... watch should his door be unlocked , so that I may get it and escape . I went on to make a thorough examina- tion of the various stairs and passages , and to try the doors that opened from them . One or two small rooms near the hall were ...
... watch should his door be unlocked , so that I may get it and escape . I went on to make a thorough examina- tion of the various stairs and passages , and to try the doors that opened from them . One or two small rooms near the hall were ...
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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