Download or read book Dracula s Guest the Judge s House and Other Horrors written by Bram Stoker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most famous for his monumental vampire novel, Dracula, Bram Stoker was hardly a one hit wonder: he was responsible for two other supernatural novels and around two dozen short stories and poems. Largely inspired by the gothic aesthetics of Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, his stories are at times melancholy, mystical, gory, and gruesome, but always strange and haunting. In this annotated and illustrated edition we have collected the very best of his short stories (eliminating some of his more maudlin, sentimental tales and sticking to the weird and disturbing episodes worthy of the author of Dracula). You'll find torture chambers, murderous ghosts, female vampires, grisly murders, revenge fantasies, gypsy curses, and Gothic tales of doom, terror, and gore. If you enjoyed feasting on Dracula, sit down for the appetizers. TALES INCLUDED in this ANNOTATED EDITION: The Crystal Cup - The Castle of the King - The Dualitists - The Star Trap - The Judge's House - The Growing of the Gold - The Squaw - Crooken Sands - Dracula's Guest - Dracula (Chapters 1-4) - The Gipsy Prophecy - A Dream of Red Hands - The Burial of the Rats - The Coming of Abel Behenna

Download or read book The Judge s House in Dracula s Guest and Other Weird Stories with The Lair of the White Worm Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Hebblethwaite Penguin Classics written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book JUDGE S HOUSE written by Bram Stoker and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dracula s Guest written by Bram Stoker and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1914, Dracula's Guest is a series of short stories penned by Bram Stoker. From tales of spirits reaching from beyond the veil to claim another victim, to ones of beasts exacting bloody vengeance upon those that have wronged them, each story contained within is a masterclass in horror from one of the genre's most venerated figures.

Download or read book Dracula s Guest and Other Weird Stories written by Bram Stoker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dracula's Guest" follows an Englishman on a visit to Munich before leaving for Transylvania.

Download or read book The Judge s House written by Bram Stoker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Judge's House" is a classic ghost story by the Irish author Bram Stoker. The story was first published in the December 5, 1891, special Christmas issue of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News weekly magazine. It was later republished in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914). The short story has since appeared in many anthologies. In the story, a student arrives in a small town looking for a quiet place to stay while preparing for his examination. Making light of the local superstitions, he moves into an old mansion where a notorious hanging judge once lived. He is comfortably settled and engrossed in his work when, in the middle of the night, he is visited by an enormous rat with baleful eyes. As soon as the giant rat appears, other rats that infest the old house fall silent. When the great rat returns on the second night, the student begins to feel uneasy. He soon learns why the locals fear the Judge's House. "The Judge's House" was adapted as a radio play for the Hall of Fantasy show in 1947. The dramatization is largely faithful but contains some simplifications. CBS Radio Mystery Theater aired an episode based on the story in 1981. The CBS version presents the story as a recollection by an American scholar of events that took place while he was in England to work with a former schoolmate. A modernized stage adaptation of the story premiered in Dublin in 2013. The story has also been adapted for comic books.

Download or read book Dracula s Guest and Other Stories written by Bram Stoker and published by Naxos Audiobooks. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his masterpiece of horror, Dracula, Bram Stoker wrote a number of other novels and many short stories, all on supernatural themes or filled with a physical terror reminiscent of Poe. Dracula's Guest was originally part of the great novel, but was excised and published separately. Some of these stories, such as The Squaw, The Judge's House and The Burial of the Rats, rank very high among classic tales of the macabre. These stories deserve to be better known for the light they shed on the enigmatic author of one of the world's supreme literary adventures into the realm of nightmare.

Download or read book The Judges House Illustrated written by Bram Stoker and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Judge's House" is a classic ghost story by the Irish author Bram Stoker. The story was first published in the December 5, 1891, special Christmas issue of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News weekly magazine. It was later republished in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914).

Download or read book Dracula s Guest and Other Weird Tales written by Bram Stoker and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of spine-chilling short stories collected and published by Stoker's widow after his death, and The Lair of the White Worm, an intensely intriguing novel of myths, legends and unspeakable evil, demonstrate the full range of his horror writing. From the petrifying open tomb in 'Dracula's Guest' to the mental breakdown depicted in 'The Judge's House' and 'Crooken Sands', these terrifying tales of the uncanny explore the boundaries between life and death, known and unknown, animal and human, dream and reality.

Download or read book Dracula s Guest The Original Classic Edition written by Bram Stoker and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even had Bram Stoker not penned the fabulously successful Dracula, efforts such as the stories in this book would more than qualify him as a gifted, masterful writer, with a special penchant for writing horror. The most prominent story in these pages is of course Draculas Guest, a story excised from the final manuscript of Dracula. This is an interesting, well-told tale, but its exclusion from the aforementioned novel seems to me to be rather inconsequential. The real jewel of this collection is The Judges House. I have read this story several times over the last decade or so, and I must say that this is my favorite horror story of all time. It somewhat chagrins me to make such a pronouncement, thinking of the masterful tales of Lovecraft, Poe, and King, yet I am compelled to make it. The ending may be somewhat cliched, but the dark, brooding, smothering atmosphere Stoker creates in this house is powerful and brilliant. The Judges House may well be the most haunted house in literature. The other seven stories are less noteworthy but eminently readable. Again, there are some cliches to be found among them, but they all work. The Squaw is my least favorite--it is, to some degree, silly in terms of its characters and ending. I should also add that animal lovers such as myself may well be somewhat traumatized by one incident in the story--I certainly was. The Secret of the Growing Gold, The Gypsy Prophecy and The Coming of Abel Behenna are pretty standard fare. The Burial of the Rats presents a thrilling, well-thought-out story of danger and escape (as well as a grim portrait of some of societys underbelly). A Dream of Red Hands is a sort of moralistic story that puts me in mind of some of Hawthornes work. Finally, Crooken Sands is a good doppelganger tale whose presentation and overall air seem different, if not unique, from the other tales in this book. If you love old Scottish dialogue, you will reap some benefits from this story--for the rest of us, though, it makes for some slightly harder reading (but I think the story would be much less effective without it). All in all, Stoker was a more than capable short story writer, even though he did sometimes stick too closely to the classic form; cliches and predictable plot points do diminish the quality of a few stories but by no means do they seriously hamper the effectiveness of them. It is unfortunate that many people think Stoker wrote Dracula and nothing else. The selections in this book are classic horror stories that only help to grant legitimacy to the genre.

Download or read book DRACULA S HALLOWEEN The Best Horrors Supernatural Tales of Bram Stoker written by Bram Stoker and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 1482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: "Dracula" is the tale of Count Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. "The Jewel of Seven Stars" tells the tale of Malcolm Ross, a young barrister, pulled into an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. "The Man" (The Gates of Life)" is a gothic tale of Stephen, young girl raised as tomboy, and her childhood friend Harold. As many of their close ones die in tragic accidents, through the deaths, Stephen and Harold grow closer. "The Lady of the Shroud" – Rupert Saint Leger inherits his uncle's estate on condition that he lives for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains. One wet night, he is visited in the castle by a pale woman wearing a wet shroud, seeking warmth. He falls in love with her, despite thinking she is a vampire, and he visits the local church where he finds her in a glass-topped stone coffin in the crypt. "The Lair of the White Worm (The Garden of Evil)" – Adam Salton from Australia is contacted by his great-uncle Richard from England in order to establish a relationship. Adam travels to England and quickly finds himself at the centre of mysterious and inexplicable occurrences. "Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Stories" is a collection of nine macabre and gothic tales in which paintings come to life, rats run amok and many other twisted things occur: Dracula's Guest The Judge's House The Squaw The Secret of the Growing Gold A Gipsy Prophecy The Coming of Abel Behenna The Burial of the Rats A Dream of Red Hands Crooken Sands

Download or read book Dracula Dracula s Guest and 3 Other Horror Stories written by Bram Stoker and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Dracula + Dracula's Guest and 3 Other Horror Stories" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing, Bram Stoker tells Count Dracula´s relationship with Jonathan and Mina Harker, pursuit by Professor van Helsing and ultimate destruction in the name of love. Intent on immigrating to England, Count Dracula enlists the services of Jonathan Harker to arrange the purchase of a suitable residence. Intrigued by the young Harker and his beautiful wife, Mina, Dracula sets in motion a series of events that threatens the sanity of all. Widely believed to be the deleted first chapter of Dracula, "Dracula's Guest," taken from Bram Stoker's collection of short stories, follows an Englishman, presumed to be Jonathan Harker, on a visit to Munich en route to Transylvania. Despite warnings from his hotelier, the Englishman leaves the safety of his carriage and wanders towards an abandoned "unholy" village. "Dracula's Guest" was originally published and introduced as the "excised chapter" in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories by Stoker's widow, Florence. Dracula's Guest and Other 3 Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death. The stories in the collection are: "Dracula's Guest", "The Judge's House", "The Burial of the Rats", "A Dream of Red Hands" . About Dracula's Guest: this short novel recounts the travels of an unnamed Englishman who crosses paths with a foreboding wolf-like creature on his way to Count Dracula's castle. A young Englishman is restlessly wandering about Munich before traveling to Transylvania.

Download or read book The Judge s House Illustrated written by Bram Stoker and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Judge's House" is a classic ghost story by the Irish author Bram Stoker. The story was first published in the December 5, 1891, special Christmas issue of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News weekly magazine. It was later republished in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914).

Download or read book Dracula s Guest Annotated written by Bram Stoker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dracula's Guest The Judge's House The Squaw The Secret of the Growing Gold The Gipsy Prophecy The Coming of Abel Behenna The Burial of the Rats A Dream of Red Hands Crooken Sands

Download or read book Dracula s Guest Illustrated written by Bram Stoker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dracula's Guest is a classic collection of Bram Stoker horror short stories includes the following titles: Dracula's guest -- The judge's house -- The squaw -- The secret of the growing gold -- The gipsy prophecy -- The coming of Abel Behenna -- The burial of the rats -- A dream of red hands -- Crooken sands. "Dracula's Guest" follows an Englishman (whose name is never mentioned, but is presumed to be Jonathan Harker) on a visit to Munich before leaving for Transylvania. It is Walpurgis Night, and in spite of the hotelier's warning to not return late, the young man later leaves his carriage and wanders toward the direction of an abandoned "unholy" village. As the carriage departs with the frightened and superstitious driver, a tall and thin stranger scares the horses at the crest of a hill. After a few hours, as he reaches a desolate valley, it begins to snow; as a dark storm gathers intensity, the Englishman takes shelter in a grove of cypress and yew trees. The Englishman's location is soon illuminated by moonlight to be a cemetery, and he finds himself before a marble tomb with a large iron stake driven through the roof, the inscription reads: Countess Dolingen of Gratz / in Styria / sought and found death / 1801. Inscribed on the back of the tomb "graven in great Russian letters" is: 'The dead travel fast.' which was an ode to the fable Lenore. The Englishman is disturbed to be in such a place on such a night and as the storm breaks anew, he is forced by pelting hail to shelter in the doorway of the tomb. As he does so, the bronze door of the tomb opens under his weight and a flash of forked lightning shows the interior - and a "beautiful woman with rounded cheeks and red lips, seemingly sleeping on a bier". The force of the following thunder peal throws the Englishman from the doorway (experienced as "being grasped as by the hand of a giant") as another lightning bolt strikes the iron spike, destroying the tomb and the now screaming woman inside. The Englishman's troubles are not quite over, as he painfully regains his senses from the ordeal, he is repulsed by a feeling of loathing which he connects to a warm feeling in his chest and a licking at this throat. The Englishman summons courage to peek through his eyelashes and discovers a gigantic wolf with flaming eyes is attending him. Military horsemen are the next to wake the semi-conscious man, chasing the wolf away with torches and guns. Some horsemen return to the main party and the Englishman after the chase, reporting that they had not found 'him' and that the Englishman's animal is "a wolf - and yet not a wolf". They also note that blood is on the ruined tomb, yet the Englishman's neck is unbloodied. "See comrades, the wolf has been lying on him and keeping his blood warm". Later, the Englishman finds his neck pained when a horseman comments on it. When the Englishman is taken back to his hotel by the men, he is informed that it is none other than his expectant host Dracula that has alerted his employees, the horsemen, of "dangers from snow and wolves and night" in a telegram received by the hotel during the time the Englishman was away.

Download or read book Dracula s Guest written by Bram Stoker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dracula's Guest: Large Print and Other Weird Stories by Bram Stoker Dracula's Guest The Judge's House The Squaw The Secret of the Growing Gold The Gipsy Prophecy The Coming of Abel Behenna The Burial of the Rats A Dream of Red Hands Crooken Sands

Download or read book Dracula s Guest written by Bram Stoker and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of shorter works on the strange and the macabre, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death. The title story "Dracula's Guest" is believed to be the deleted first chapter of Stoker's masterpiece, Dracula. The other nine stories like "The Squaw", "The Judge's House", and "The Burial of the Rats" rank very high among classic tales of horror.