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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," 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 ...
"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 ...
Billy Campbell in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - he is portrayed faithfully to his counterpart in the novel. Alessio Boni in Dracula (2002) - here the events are updated to modern times and Quincey is a businessman specialising in money swindles. Keir Knight (as "Quincy Morris of Texas") in Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
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. Meanwhile, collections published under longer titles contain ...
Famous Impostors is the last of four non-fiction books completed by Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. [3] It features numerous historical impostors and hoaxes.. The first edition was published by the Sturgis & Walton Company of New York in November 1910. [2]
Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912), popularly known as Bram Stoker, was an Irish author who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. The work is widely considered a milestone in Vampire fiction . [ 1 ]