Dracula's Guest: And Other Weird Stories

by Bram Stoker

Overview

A few months before the lamented death of my husband-I might say even as the shadow of death was over him-he planned three series of short stories for publication, and the present volume is one of them. To his original list of stories in this book, I have added an hitherto unpublished episode from Dracula.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. The other stories have already been published in English and American periodicals. Had my husband lived longer, he might have seen fit to revise this work, which is mainly from the earlier years of his strenuous life. But, as fate has entrusted to me the issuing of it, I consider it fitting and proper to let it go forth practically as it was left by him.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781508405658
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/10/2015
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Abraham Stoker was born on November 8, 1847, in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland, the third of seven children. Bedridden with an unknown illness until age seven, this time gave him time to develop a vivid imagination.
Eventually attending Trinity College in Dublin, from 1864 to 1870, he achieved a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and was named University Athlete. Upon graduation, he became a well-known theater critic and founded the Dublin Sketching Club in 1874.
In 1878, Bram married Florence Balcombe, ex-fiancé of Oscar Wilde. They had a son in 1879 and moved to London, where he became friends with Arthur Conan Doyle, to whom he was also related.
It was there that he became the assistant to actor and Lyceum Theatre owner Henry Irving. Following Irving on his world tours, he met Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley and Walt Whitman. In 1890, he began writing his dozen novels. "Dracula" was published in 1897. He also wrote several short story collections.
Stoker died from a stroke on April 20, 1912, at the age of 64, in London, England. He was cremated and his ashes were placed in an urn at Golders Green Crematorium. His son's ashes were eventually placed in the same urn.