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Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death, at the behest of his widow Florence Balcombe. [ 2 ] The same collection has been issued under short titles including simply Dracula's Guest .
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters , diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula .
In contrast to the mixed reaction to Stoker's previous work, the Dracula sequel Dracula the Un-dead, the critical response to Dracul has been positive. [4] Kirkus Reviews wrote that it "will no doubt be a hit among monster-movie and horror lit fans—and for good reason", noting that it is "a lively if unlovely story, in which the once febrile Bram becomes a sort of Indiana Jones".
"Dracula's Guest" is a short story by Bram Stoker, first published in the short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914). Scholars are divided on whether the story is the excised first chapter of the novel Dracula, an early draft of a chapter of that novel, or was meant as a separate story. Although some elements of the ...
Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908) is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula.Set in rural Scotland, where a party of travelling actors are trapped in the snow telling stories to each other to pass the time, the book is influenced by Stoker's years in the service of Sir Henry Irving.
"Dracula," the Gothic, mysterious and supernatural vampire novel from 1897 may have been set in Transylvania and England but its author, Stoker, was a Dubliner. "I read 'Dracula' as a child and it ...
Count Dracula (/ ˈ d r æ k j ʊ l ə,-j ə-/) is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction.
Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.An English solicitor, his journey to Transylvania and encounter with the vampire Count Dracula and his Brides at Castle Dracula constitutes the dramatic opening scenes in the novel and most of the film adaptations.