Dracula's Guest

by Bram Stoker

Overview

From the creator of Dracula comes these two dark tales of the macabre. In Dracula's Guest an English tourist, ignoring the warning of the locals, goes for a walk through the Bavarian countryside. In a long-abandoned graveyard, he finds himself caught in a bizzare storm and stumbles upon a mysterious woman seemingly asleep in her tomb. Is the timely rescue by a great wolf mere good fortune or the supernatural act of the mysterious count who has ordered that he be looked after? In The Squaw, a man who has cruelly treated a cat's litter gets his just desserts when the mother cat extracts her revenge.

Filled with spine-tingling tension and horror, these are two of Brain Stoker's finest tales of terror. Illustrated with 15 b&w drawings by Eric Shanower.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788835373308
Publisher:	GIANLUCA
Publication date:	02/03/2020
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	616 KB

About the Author

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist. Born in Dublin, Stoker suffered from an unknown illness as a young boy before entering school at the age of seven. He would later remark that the time he spent bedridden enabled him to cultivate his imagination, contributing to his later success as a writer. He attended Trinity College, Dublin from 1864, graduating with a BA before returning to obtain an MA in 1875. After university, he worked as a theatre critic, writing a positive review of acclaimed Victorian actor Henry Irving’s production of Hamlet that would spark a lifelong friendship and working relationship between them. In 1878, Stoker married Florence Balcombe before moving to London, where he would work for the next 27 years as business manager of Irving’s influential Lyceum Theatre. Between his work in London and travels abroad with Irving, Stoker befriended such artists as Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Hall Caine, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1895, having published several works of fiction and nonfiction, Stoker began writing his masterpiece Dracula (1897) while vacationing at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel in Cruden Bay, Scotland. Stoker continued to write fiction for the rest of his life, achieving moderate success as a novelist. Known more for his association with London theatre during his life, his reputation as an artist has grown since his death, aided in part by film and television adaptations of Dracula, the enduring popularity of the horror genre, and abundant interest in his work from readers and scholars around the world.