Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death.
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| Author | Bram Stoker |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Genre | Short stories, horror fiction |
| Publisher | George Routledge and Sons |
Publication date | 1914 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 200 |
| OCLC | 3952965 |
| LC Class | PZ3.S8743 Dr14 PR6037.T617 (Arrow Books, 1974)[1] |
The same collection has been issued under short titles including simply Dracula's Guest. Meanwhile, collections published under longer titles contain different selections of stories.
Contents of the collection
| Title | Date of serialisation | Location of serialisation[2] |
|---|---|---|
| "Dracula's Guest" | xx/xx/1914 | Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories |
| "The Judge's House" | 05/12/1891 | Holly Leaves the Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News |
| "The Squaw" | 02/12/1893 | Holly Leaves the Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News |
| "The Secret of the Growing Gold" | 23/01/1892 | Black and White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review |
| "A Gipsy Prophecy" | xx/xx/1914 | Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories |
| "The Coming of Abel Behenna" | xx/xx/1914 | Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories |
| "The Burial of the Rats" | xx/xx/1914 | Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories |
| "A Dream of Red Hands" | 11/07/1894 | The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality |
| "Crooken Sands" | xx/12/1894 | Holly Leaves the Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News |
Adaptations
- "The Burial of the Rats" was adapted in 1995 as a movie called Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats by Roger Corman's film company and as a comic book by Jerry Prosser and Francisco Solano Lopez.
- The Squaw was adapted for comics by Archie Goodwin (script) and Reed Crandall (art) for Creepy magazine no.13.
- Dracula's Guest was adapted for comics by E. Nelson Bridwell (script) and Frank Bolle (art) for Eerie magazine no.16.
Notes
- "Dracula's guest" (Arrow Books, 1974). LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-09-23.
- von Ruff, Al. "The Internet Speculative Fiction Database". Newsarama.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
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References
- Klinger, Leslie S. (2008) The New Annotated Dracula. W.W. Norton & Co.. ISBN 0-393-06450-6.
- Skal, David J. (1993). The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-024002-0.
External links
- Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories at Project Gutenberg
- Bram Stoker Online – Full text and PDF versions of the entire collection.
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