The Last Voyage of Demeter: The Terrifying Chapter from Bram Stoker's Dracula
By Bram Stoker
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A ghost ship is wrecked in Whitby’s harbour and the only clue to the whereabouts of the missing crew is in these clippings from the captain’s log. Delve into the last voyage of Demeter in this harrowing chapter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
The Last Voyage of Demeter is an extract from the most terrifying vampire fiction in literary history. First published as Chapter 7 of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), this volume explores the final sea voyage of Demeter, the Russian ship unknowingly carrying Transylvania’s undead Count Dracula.
Weeks before its final destination, strange and supernatural events began haunting Demeter. The captain started keeping a log to record the death, darkness, and fear that had taken hold of his crew, but will the Whitby locals be able to discern the truth before it’s too late?
Featuring black-and-white illustrations, this unique volume has been published by Fantasy and Horror Classics for a new generation of readers to immerse themselves in the thrilling tale of the doomed voyage and the merciless Count Dracula.
Bram Stoker
Abraham Stoker was born near Dublin in 1847. He was virtually bedridden with an unidentified illness until the age of seven. After graduating from Trinity College, he followed his father into a career as a civil servant in Dublin castle, writing journalism and short stories in his spare time. In 1876 he met the actor Henry Irving and two years later became manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre in London. Through Oscar Wilde's parents, Stoker met his wife Florence Balcombe. He wrote many books of which only Dracula (1897) is widely remembered. He died in 1912.
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The Last Voyage of Demeter - Bram Stoker
THE
LAST VOYAGE
OF DEMETER
THE
TERRIFYING CHAPTER FROM
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
By
BRAM STOKER
First published in 1897
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Contents
Bram Stoker
GONE FROM MY SIGHT
A Poem by Luther F. Beecher
INTRODUCTION
THE LAST VOYAGE OF DEMETER
Illustrations
Ship in a Storm
By J. M. W. Turner
At Sea, 1871
By Winslow Homer
The Phantom Ship, or On the Waves, 1872
By Theophile Narcisse Chauvel
Study of a Vampire Bat
By Samuel Howitt
Bram Stoker
Abraham 'Bram' Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1847. Stoker was a semi-invalid as a child, and was bedridden until he started school at the age of seven. However, he made a full recovery and went on to excel as an athlete at Trinity College, which he enrolled at in 1864. Stoker graduated with honours in mathematics in 1870, and was also president of the university's philosophical society.
Stoker developed an interest in theatre, and became theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail in his early twenties. It was following a favourable review he gave of an 1876 Henry Irving production of Hamlet that Stoker and Irving struck up a friendship. Three years later, in the same year that Stoker married Florence Balcombe (whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde), he became acting-manager and then business manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre—a post he went on to hold for