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Dracula's Guest: And Other Weird Stories. ( This is a collection of horror stories by: Bram Stoker the author of Dracula )

Dracula's Guest: And Other Weird Stories. ( This is a collection of horror stories by: Bram Stoker the author of Dracula )

Stoker, Bram

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ISBN10: 1537505378
ISBN13: 9781537505374
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 6 2016
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.18 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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.It is widely believed that Dracula's Guest is actually the deleted first chapter from the original Dracula manuscript, which the publisher felt was superfluous to the story. In the preface to the original edition of Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, Stoker's widow Florence wrote, To his original list of stories in this book, I have added an hitherto unpublished episode from Dracula. It was originally excised owing to the length of the book, and may prove of interest to the many readers of what is considered my husband's most remarkable work.Dracula's Guest follows an Englishman (whose name is never mentioned but is presumed to be Jonathan Harker) on a visit to Munich before leaving for Transylvania. It is Walpurgis Night, and in spite of the hotelier's warning to not be late back, the young man later leaves his carriage and wanders toward the direction of an abandoned unholy village. As the carriage departs with the frightened and superstitious driver, a tall and thin stranger scares the horses at the crest of a hill. After a few hours, as he reaches a desolate valley, it begins to snow; as a dark storm gathers intensity, the Englishman takes shelter in a grove of cypress and yew trees. The Englishman's location is soon illuminated by moonlight to be a cemetery, and he finds himself before a marble tomb with a large iron stake driven through the roof, the inscription reads: Countess Dolingen of Gratz / in Styria / sought and found death / 1801. Inscribed on the back of the tomb graven in great Russian letters is: 'The dead travel fast.' which was an ode to the fable Lenore. The Englishman is disturbed to be in such a place on such a night and as the storm breaks anew, he is forced by pelting hail to shelter in the doorway of the tomb. As he does so, the bronze door of the tomb opens under his weight and a flash of forked lightning shows the interior - and a beautiful woman with rounded cheeks and red lips, seemingly sleeping on a bier. The force of the following thunder peal throws the Englishman from the doorway (experienced as being grasped as by the hand of a giant) as another lightning bolt strikes the iron spike, destroying the tomb and the now screaming woman inside.

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