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Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from Jersey to Juneau. Each classic or original short story is printed on one sheet of paper and folded like a map. This makes it simple to read while commuting, convenient to carry when not, and easy to give or send to a friend. A paper envelope is provided for mailing or gift-giving, and both are packaged in a clear plastic envelope for display. The cost is not much more than a greeting card. ... Read more

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Some good suspense and a wicked ending
Malcolm Malcolmson is preparing for his examination, and wants somewhere isolated to undertake his studies. When he finds a large, isolated old house, it seems to fit the bill. And when he is told that the locals fear the old house, he gives it no thought whatsoever. However, when he starts to see a large and malevolent rat with a piercing stare, he begins to suspect that there is more here than meets the eye. Is the evil old judge, who used to own the house, making his presence felt? And, what, if anything, can Malcolm do to protect himself?

This book is actually a short story, written in 1891 by that master of horror, Bram Stoker. The story is very good, with some good suspense, and a wicked ending. I liked the story a lot, and all I have against it is that it is so short. Like I said, Bram Stoker was the master, and this story helps show why.

Classic story, fun format, but pricey
I first discovered the Travelman series of book pamphlets in anewsstand in London's Paddington Station...the size and shape of apaper road map, these are an ideal and absolutely unique format for reading while you commute on the subway, bus, or train. They're much easier to use (and more entertaining!) than any road map I've ever handled, however...they unfold easily bit-by-bit, never awkwardly, and each contains a classic short story. Bram Stoker's "The Judge's House" is a classic Victorian-era ghost story heavy on atmosphere and foreshadowing--and rats.Is the ancient, rat-infested home that Malcolm Malcolmson is renting actually haunted by the vengeful spirit of a hanging judge? (Well, it wouldn't be much of a Stoker story if it weren't, would it?) The Travelman format is ideal for a half-hour commute and the unique concept will have your fellow travelers asking what you're reading and where you got that interesting looking mini-book. There are many more in the series available in the US, including stories by P.G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ruth Rendell, Ian Fleming, Dorothy Parker, Roald Dahl and Oscar Wilde... the format is fun, and they make great literary gifts. ... Read more

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Perhaps the most famous vampire story of all time, and the most popular, Dracula is recreated in its entirety in this unabridged audio program.The story of Dracula has been retold and recreated many times in film and on the stage in the last hundred years.Yet, it is essentially a Victorian saga, an awesome tale of a thrillingly bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities embody the dark underside of an outwardly moralistic age.Dracula represents all the hidden and repressed power of male and female sexuality, of animal lust, and passion unleashed.Above all, Dracula is a quintessential story of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying creatures in literature: centuries-old Count Dracula.

Near the beginning of this tale, Jonathan Harker knows little of what is in store when he receives the following letter:

"My friend - Welcome to the Carpathians.I am anxiously expecting you.Sleep well tonight.At three tomorrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you.At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and bring you to me.

Your friend, Dracula." ... Read more

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More tales of horror and the peculiar from the master of the genre

In volume two of the Leonaur five volume collection of Bram Stoker's writings of dark doings, elemental evil and those dead (and undead), readers will discover the bizarre and gothic novel, 'The Lady in the Shroud,' the title alone of which is enough to alert the reader as to what is in store. This substantial volume is enhanced by the inclusion of seven pieces of shorter fiction to thrill and unsettle-'A Dream of Red Hands,' 'The Secret of the Growing Gold,' 'A Gypsy Prophesy,' 'Crooked Sands,' 'The Crystal Cup,' 'In the Valley of the Shadow' and 'The Man from Shorrox.' This collection of the macabre is available in softcover and hardback with dust jacket for collectors. Leonaur hard backs are cloth bound, with gold foil stamped spines and head and tail bands-a credit to your book case! ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2; Original Published by: Macmillan in 1906 in 439 pages; Subjects: Actors; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Performing Arts / Individual Director; ... Read more

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Leatherdale is the Gold Standard in Critical Editions of "Dracula".
"Dracula Unearthed" is the gold standard in critical editions of Bram Stoker's Victorian horror novel "Dracula", edited and annotated by one of the novel's most respected scholars, Clive Leatherdale. It contains about 110,000 words worth of annotations, which, as Leatherdale notes, is only 50,000 words fewer than the novel itself. These annotations take up a significant chunk of each page, and their font is rather small. This is a good way to find out if your vision is declining. Some publishers run extensive annotations in a wide margin beside the main text to avoid having to make the annotations so small, but this necessitates that the book be a larger format. In any case, small and voluminous as they are, the annotations don't detract from the legibility of the novel. In fact, this edition is better-designed for students of "Dracula" than any other.

The annotations are many, but they are not frivolous. Leatherdale explains allusions in the text, defines terms, cites Stoker's sources, quotes the source when available, clarifies confusing passages in the text, points out inconsistencies, makes note of the novel's theatrical structure, and offers interesting analyses of more issues than I could have imagined. Be aware that the annotations do sometimes contain spoilers, as they may reference events further along in the novel. This is a critical edition, intended for students and scholars who are already familiar with the novel.This was the first annotated edition to make use of Stoker's working notes for "Dracula", housed at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, and Leatherdale sometimes directly quotes Stoker's sources.

In his introductory materials, Leatherdale includes a complete list of Bram Stoker's sources taken from his working notes, a select bibliography, a complete list of the Dramatis Personae, and Stoker's preface to the 1901 Icelandic edition of the novel, which can be found in some other editions as well. In the table of contents, the location where each chapter takes place is added in brackets underneath the chapter title. The chapter title is in the header of each lefthand page, as is traditional, but Leatherdale also places a key quotation from the chapter in the header of each righthand page to aid in navigating the text. And he has added the day of the week to all of the diaries/letters for clarity. In short, there are a lot of unique and thoughtful features in "Dracula Unearthed". It's one of only a handful of books that are an absolutely essential for "Dracula" fans and students. If you can't find it in the US, it is in print in the UK.

Or Like the Ghost of Hamlet's Father
I agree with the review above. I got this for sixteen bucks and have been enjoying it thoroughly.Someone in a review of the "the new annotated dracula" said that author (allegedly) helped himself to a lot of the annotations in this one.I don't know if that's true or not but this is certainly a thorough job but not so overdone that it breaks the flow of the novel.

This seems to me to be more thorough than the Wolf version of twenty five years ago (which is also very good) but doesn't fall into some of the excesses of the newer one--which starts on the amusing premise that dracula is a real person and that the events were real.That's a fun idea to a lot of people (which I don't have a problem with) but a lot of people just find it irritating.

So, if you're more of a pure scholar this might be the one for you.My only warning would be that this one is so scholarly that it contains absolutely no artwork (except for the dust jacket).But it is very fun and very illuminating.

But, hark, the Children of the Night are scratching at my screen door.

Do buy it!!!
If you just want to read "Dracula" to know the story, then any paperback edition is fine. But if you want to fully appreciate the depth and scope of Bram Stoker's creation then you simply MUST have this book. It will give you a guided tour through all dark hooks and crannies of the novel and you'll understand why it turned out to be the everlasting book its humble beginnings would not seem to allow.
It is easy to read, serious and tremendously enjoyable.
Do buy it!... ... Read more

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Great book that will leave you wanting more...........,
The author has gained a reputation for approaching a subject from an original angle and reporting it in an easy reading style. This book will enhance his reputation even more. The book moves at a cracking pace with the author also the narrator in true Raymond Chandler style. His young lover 'Lee' must be the Superbitch of all time,and time is what it's all about as they go back with Bram Stoker (Author of Dracular) no less to Victorian London to meet Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, the greatest actors of their day.

The dialogue between elegant actors speaking perfect english and modern day yob speak is achieved with great skill. There is also a fascinating sub plot in that every detail of date, time and place is exactly as it happened. I know because I double checked with several historians. And at the risk of becoming a complete anorak I drove into central London and checked Theatres Statues Streets etc.. It was all weirdly correct.!

When I finally put down the book after looking long at those marvellous photos it left me wondering if maybe they really did go back into the past! When's the film released??!! ... Read more

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The famous vampire lives within these pages! ... Read more

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Nice Collection of Stoker's Lesser Known....
As my title says, this is indeed a nice collection of Stoker's lesser known works.It also includes "Dracula's Guest" which was cut from the original masterpiece of Victorian terror.This short story being perhaps the best in the volume.The stories range from the excellent to the hum-drum.I took away one star for that reason.

Either way, I'd recommend this book....if you can find a copy. ... Read more

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A biography of Bram Stoker. ... Read more

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An Excellent Collection of Sources for Scholars of Bram Stoker's "Dracula".
"The Origins of Dracula" is an anthology of scholarly sources that Bram Stoker consulted while writing his 1897 masterpiece of gothic horror "Dracula". These aren't the literary antecedents of the novel, but non-fiction works that relate to the novel's sub-themes. Clive Leatherdale, who has annotated and published Bram Stoker's other works as well as the most scholarly and comprehensive annotated edition of "Dracula", has excerpted the relevant portions of Bram Stoker's sources and compiled them here. According to Stoker's working notes for "Dracula", he consulted 32 sources. Leatherdale includes 16 of them here plus one additional article. Those omitted seemed to have no bearing on "Dracula", are in French, or are "so prolix as to defy editorial surgery", in Leatherdale's words.

The works were published 1750-1895, but most are from the mid- to late-19th century. Common subjects are: Balkan folklore, Eastern European history, natural history, and theories on trances and states of unconsciousness. Leatherdale introduces each work and explains how it may have related to "Dracula". The one essay that was not among Bram Stoker's sources is a piece by Benedictine monk Dom Augustine Calmet from "The Phantom Ward", written in 1750 and translated into English in 1850, in which he tries to make sense of the epidemic of vampirism that purportedly plagued parts of Eastern Europe in the 1720s-1730s. What follows is a list of the other works which are included. These are excerpts of the works, typically 10-20 pages long, not the entire work:

"Curiosities of Olden Times" (1895) and "The Book of Were-Wolves" (1865) by Sabine Baring-Gould, "The Origins of Primitive Superstitions" (1881) by Ruston M. Dorman, "On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions" (1851) by Herbert Mayo, "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" (1820) by William Wilkinson, "On the Track of the Crescent" (1885) by Major E.C. Johnson, "The Nineteenth Century" (1885) by Emily Gerard, "The Folk-Tales of the Magyars" (1889) translated by Rev. W. Henry Jones and Lewis L. Kropf, "Anecdotes of Habits and Instincts of Animals" (1853) by Sarah Lee, "Credulities Past and Present" (1880) by William Jones, "On Superstitions Connected with the History and Practice of Medicine and Surgery" (1844) by Thomas Pettigrew, "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1861) by John Jones, "The Other World" aka "Glimpses of the Supernatural" (1875) by Frederick Lee, "The Devil: His Origins, Greatness, and Decadence" (1871) by Albert Réville, "Superstitions and Force" (1878) by Henry C. Lea.

The chapter titles refer to the subject of the work, not the titles that I have listed above. There is an appendix with a complete list of Stoker's sources. Some of the works provide insight into folklore and lifestyles of the time, while those on medical theory or history are certainly outdated. More is known about Eastern European history and fact better separated from fiction now than it was then. "The Origins of Dracula" will only interest scholars and serious students of the novel. But this is a very convenient collection of sources for those who wish to dig deep into "Dracula"'s origins. I have read a lot of criticism and scholarship of "Dracula", but I had only encountered two of these sources before, those by Emily Gerard and Dom Augustine Calmet.

An interesting reading
I am not a fan of Dracula's films, but I like the novel by Bram Stoker. This book makes a great effort to go further than the myth we have in mind. Not only because its historical research, but also for its interesting study of anthropology.

Death, blood, folkore and so. And also a very interesting bibliography. I think that with the Annotated Dracula by Wolf this is a keeper for those who are interested in vampyrs, but also is a very interesting book for those who like anthropology.

A profoundly facinating study of Bram Stoker's masterpiece.
I purchased this book at Whitby Abbey, one of Dracula's key settings, 4 years ago. It provides an outstanding companion to the novel as well as documenting the predecessors of the renown Count Dracula. The authorpresents his findings in a concise manner, never leaving the reader hangingor uninterested. I would recommend this book to any fan of the gothicnovel, voracious readers, inquisitive English student/professor, or tothose who wish to further their knowledge of the original Dracula andbanish Hollywood's pollution from thier minds. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Horror; Fiction / Literary; Body, Mind ... Read more