Name: Dracula's Guest & Other Supernatural Tales
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Author: Stoker, Bram
ISBN: 9781528710695

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Dracula's Guest & Other Supernatural Tales

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bram Stoker

Publisher

Fantasy and Horror Classics

Language

English

Pages

164

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN13

9781528710695

Synopsis "Dracula's Guest & Other Supernatural Tales"

"Dracula's Guest and Other Supernatural Tales"is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published as: "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories". "Dracula's Guest" is Believed to be the omitted first chapter from the original "Dracula" manuscript, it follows an Englishman who visits Munich before setting off for Transylvania on Walpurgis Night. Ignoring the hotelier's warnings, he leaves his carriage and heads towards an abandoned village. Just as the frightened and superstitious driver departs, a mysterious, lank stranger appears atop the zenith of a nearby hill. This collection of short, shiver-inducing stories is perfect for lovers of the macabre and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Bram Stoker's bone-chilling horror fiction. Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847 - 1912) was an Irish author most famous for his 1897 Gothic novel "Dracula", a seminal book that continues to influence the vampire genre in print and film to this day. Other notable works by this author include: "Miss Betty" (1898), "The Mystery of the Sea" (1902), and "The Jewel of Seven Stars" (1903). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Bram Stoker

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Abraham "Bram" Stoker (Clontarf; November 8, 1847-London; April 20, 1912) was an Irish novelist and writer, known for his novel Dracula

His early horror stories, such as "The Crystal Cup" (1872), were published by the London Society, and The Chain of Destiny in the Shamrock magazine. In 1876, while working as a civil servant, he wrote a textbook named The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879), this book was used as a reference for a long time

Being a theater critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, co-owned by the famous Gothic novelist Sheridan Le Fanu, one of the most important of his time for stories like Carmilla, about a vampire, greatly influenced Stoker when writing Dracula. Stoker's critique of the play was high praise for the performance in Hamlet by actor Henry Irving, who hired him to be his personal secretary and manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London

While working for Irving, he was a literary critic for the Daily Telegraph and wrote several novels like The Snake's Pass (1890) and Dracula (1897) and, after Irving's death in 1905, The Lady of the Shroud (1909) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911)

His wife was the administrator of his literary estate, and she made known works such as what would be the introduction to Dracula, the short story Dracula's Guest

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