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Dracula's Guest
Dracula's Guest
Dracula's Guest
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Dracula's Guest

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Be Introduced to the Power of Dracula.

“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.”

"Dracula's Guest" is the deleted first chapter from the original Dracula manuscript. It’s a beautiful introduction to the supernatural elements of the book.
This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.

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LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 20, 2016
ISBN9781681956503
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Bram Stoker

Bram (Abraham) Stoker was an Irish novelist, born November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland. 'Dracula' was to become his best-known work, based on European folklore and stories of vampires. Although most famous for writing 'Dracula', Stoker wrote eighteen books before he died in 1912 at the age of sixty-four.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5

    This is a collection of various tales, being Dracula's guest only one of them.

    As for the tales themselves, my absolute favourite would definitely be the Judge's House, followed by the Dracula's Guest (which is a snippet that had been removed from Dracula).

    Other noteworthy tales would also include The Squaw (extremely predictable, but with creepy imagery), The Burial of Rats (the reason for the title is pretty creepy, but lots of plus points for being the most action packed, since it features a chase scene), and The Secret of Growing Gold (reads much like a ghost story). Honourable mention for A Dream of Red Hands, which I found to be more original among the other tales, even if not exactly the most engaging. The rating would go something like this:

    4* The Judge's House
    4* Dracula's Guest
    4* The Burial of Rats

    3* The Squaw
    3* The Secret of Growing Gold
    3* A Dream of Red Hands

    2* The Coming of Abel Behenna
    2* The Gipsy Prophecy
    2* Crooken Sands

    As I said, the stories follow much the same plotline for the most part, which makes them extremely predictable when reading them all in a row. To be honest, the more stories I read, the more bored I became, because I could foresee overall what was coming. By the end, I just wanted to finish the book already, since the only story able to get me out of my 'stupor' in the second half was The Burial of Rats.

    I'd still highly recommend The Judge's House and Dracula's Guest to anyone who liked Dracula however, I found those have the same wonderful eery and creepy atmosphere I loved in that book. Just those two tales alone make this book worth reading.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker; (5*)I found this to be even better than Stoker's Dracula. Such a visual treat in this genre and the ending really creeped me out. I was not expecting that end for this tale of the macabre.The fascination for this reader was not so much what the reader is told but the visual behind the telling of events. A great short.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The title piece is an excised section of Dracula. Mrs S says in her preface that it was removed due to the length of the novel. I suspect though that it's excision was more provoked by the fact that it portrays Harker as an absolute muppet and really reveals far too much far too early. If you've read Dracula you my well find that the opening part, Harker's Journal, is by far the most powerful part of the book and this would interrupt the flow.The remaining stories are for the most part overly predicable or pointless grisly stories. There are nice bits - the deaths in The Squaw are well done, for example and as Mrs S stresses, these are early and unrevised works. The humour of Crooken Sands is enjoyable too. I particularly enjoyed A Dream of Red Hands. I really do identify with Jacob Settle. Can't believe I'm admitting this online, but I do, so there. (I haven't actually murdered anyone.)I think this would be most of interest to a Dracula fan. Stoker is obviously a man with something on his mind and there are elements of all the stories that put you in mind of that novel, not least of which is his obsession with the sense of dread, either in his characters or his audience.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    An excellent anthology by the Master himself. From the title story through The Signalman to Crooken Sands - all are the classic, chilling tales recognizable as Bram Stokers'.

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