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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... window , which may have had something to do with it ; or it may have been the paprika , for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe , and was still thirsty . Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my ...
... window , which may have had something to do with it ; or it may have been the paprika , for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe , and was still thirsty . Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my ...
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... of a vast ruined castle , from whose tall black windows came no ray of light , and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moon- lit sky . II . JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL ( continued ) 5 May Dracula 11.
... of a vast ruined castle , from whose tall black windows came no ray of light , and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moon- lit sky . II . JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL ( continued ) 5 May Dracula 11.
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... window openings it was not likely that my voice could penetrate . The time I waited seemed endless , and I felt ... windows , as I had now and again felt in the morning after a day of overwork . But my flesh answered the pinching test ...
... window openings it was not likely that my voice could penetrate . The time I waited seemed endless , and I felt ... windows , as I had now and again felt in the morning after a day of overwork . But my flesh answered the pinching test ...
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... window of any sort . Passing through this , he opened another door , and motioned me to enter . It was a welcome sight ; for here was a great bedroom well lighted and warmed with another log fire , —also added to but lately , for the ...
... window of any sort . Passing through this , he opened another door , and motioned me to enter . It was a welcome sight ; for here was a great bedroom well lighted and warmed with another log fire , —also added to but lately , for the ...
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... windows high up and heavily barred with iron . It looks like part of a keep , and is close to an old chapel or church . I could not enter it , as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house , but I have taken with my ...
... windows high up and heavily barred with iron . It looks like part of a keep , and is close to an old chapel or church . I could not enter it , as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house , but I have taken with my ...
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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