The Jewel of Seven Stars is a 1903 horror novel by Bram Stoker. The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. The novel explores common fin-de-siecle themes such as imperialism, the rise of the New Woman and feminism, and societal progress.

"FRANKENSTEIN DRACULA THE INVISIBLE MAN " Three of the top horror novels of all time have been newly adapted into novellas, and are now side by side in this one book. These world-famous monsters are familiar household names. These are the monsters that authors and filmmakers continue to draw from again and again. And these are the stories that introduced them to the world over a century ago. So turn down the lights, and experience triple the action, suspense, chills and thrills, in half the time it would take to read one novel

"From the summit of the ivy-grown tower, the very rooks, in the midst of their cawing, are scared away by the furious rush and the wild howl with which the Wehr-Wolf thunders over the hallowed ground." - G. W. M. Reynolds, "Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf"
This collection brings together fifteen chilling stories of lycanthropy and murder written from 1838 to 1896, all taken from their original appearances in Victorian periodicals and story collections, many of them reprinted here for the first time. This edition includes a new introduction by Alexis Easley and Shannon Scott, explanatory notes, and...

Bram Stoker's "Dracula: A Mystery Story" is a well-known classic that has been adapted countless times over the years. Through this edition based on the original text as published in 1897, the reader is able to take in this masterpiece as the author intended, minus all of the later flourishes added by Hollywood and pop culture.

The Classics Exposed... A group of friends are stalked by evil, and plagued by lust. Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, is sent to Transylvania to work with Count Dracula on the latter's acquisition of property in England. However, it's not long before the Count's motives are revealed to be more sinister than they at first appeared. He has no reflection, an unnatural fascination with blood, and a determination to satisfy his appetites in a new country. Distracted by the insatiable, spectral women who haunt the Count's castle, Jonathan is trapped in a foreign land while Dracula travels to...

Collected here are twenty-two vampire stories by authors such as William Polidori, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert E. Howard, Bram Stoker, and Warren Lapine. With more than 350 pages of vampires this anthology is a must have for any vampire enthusiast. The anthology ranges from classic stories such as "The Vampyre" and "Carmilla" to more modern takes on vampirism with "Mona Lisa" and "Each Man Kills." There's enough blood here for everyone.

The Man is a novel that is reminiscent from the Victorian era of British history, culture and society, which encompassed the period of the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The Victorian era was considered a long period pf peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national pride for Britain. Culturally, the Victorian era was a bold transition from the preceding Georgian era, a period largely defined by logic and rationalism, and a progression towards romanticism and mysticism in terms of religion, societal values, and the arts. In international...

The Lady of the Shroud is a novella by Bram Stoker, written in 1909. The book is an epistolary novel, narrated in the first person via letters and diary extracts from various characters, but mainly Rupert. The initial sections, leading up to the reading of the uncle's will, told by other characters, suggest that Rupert is the black sheep of the family, and the conditions of having to live in the castle in the Blue Mountains for a year before he can permanently inherit the unexpectedly large million-pound estate suggest the uncle is somehow testing the heir.

The all-time classic story, Dracula, is told in epistolary format, as a series of letters, diary entries, and ships' log entries, whose narrators are the novel's protagonists, and occasionally supplemented with newspaper clippings relating events not directly witnessed. The events portrayed in the novel take place chronologically and largely in England and Transylvania during the 1890s and all transpire within the same year between the 3rd of May and the 6th of November. A short note is located at the end of the final chapter written 7 years after the events outlined in the novel.
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