BRAM STOKER
DRACULA'S GUEST
Paperback
(Independently published Dec. 8, 2017)
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 To his original list of stories in this book, I have added an hitherto unpublished episode from _Dracula_.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. Dracula's guest is a short story from the collection Dracula's guest and other horror stories first published in 1914, two years after the death of its author, Bram Stoker. Dracula's guest is on his trip to an English gentleman (whose name is never mentioned in the story but is supposed to be Jonathan Harker, one of the protagonists of Dracula) while wandering around the city of Munich before heading to Transylvania. It is the Night of Walpurgis, and despite the warnings of the coachman (Johan), the young Englishman recklessly leaves his hotel and strolls through the woods alone. On the way he feels himself observed by a tall and thin stranger. The story concludes in an ancient and dark cemetery where there is a marble tomb (with a large iron stake through it) in which the words Denn die Toten reiten schnell ("Because the dead travel quickly", fragment of the poem are recorded " Lenore ", by Gottfried August Bürger), and where he meets the specter of a vampire called Countess Dolingen de Graz. The spirit of this evil and beautiful vampire wakes up from his marble enclosure to conjure a blizzard before being hit by Lightning and return to your stone prison. However, the problems of the English gentleman are not over, as a wolf emerges from the blizzard and attacks him. However, the wolf simply keeps it warm and alive in the snow until help arrives. When the protagonist is finally returned to his hotel, a telegram from Dracula awaits him, with which he will meet in Transylvania, and in which he warns of the dangers of snow and wolves in the night.
- ISBN
- 1973498332 / 9781973498339
- Pages
- 100
- Weight
- 11.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 0.2 in.
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