Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: a ship runs aground on the shores of Whitby, its crew vanished; beautiful Lucy Westenra slowly succumbs to a mysterious, wasting illness, her blood drained away; and the lunatic Renfield raves about the imminent arrival of his 'master'. In the ensuing battle of wills between the sinister Count and...

During a business visit to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, observes the Count's transformation from human to bat form, and discovers puncture wounds on his own neck that seem to have been made by teeth. Harker returns home upon his escape from Dracula's grim fortress, but a friend's strange malady -- involving sleepwalking, inexplicable blood loss, and mysterious throat wounds -- initiates a frantic vampire hunt. The popularity of Bram Stoker's...

Truly a Dracula for both art and book lovers, this new edition of the most famous of vampire tales completely overhauls the notion of how a literary classic might be creatively revisited. James Pyman is already famed for his eerily exacting and hallucinatory draftsmanship, as well as for his relish for the exploration of book formats such as cartoon or children's books, and is therefore ideally suited to the illustration of this volume. Herein, Pyman returns to the original text, illustrating a line or phrase from each of the novel's 27 chapters in a series of wonderfully sinister and...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This is the Complete Unabridged Collectors Edition of Dracula, the 1897 classic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. It was first published as a hardcover in 1897 by Archibald Constable and Company.

Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature.

Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of letters, diary entries, ships' logs, etc. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role...

Bram Stoker's novel became one of the masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a world of vampires and vampire hunters whilst simultaneously exposing the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and frustrated desire.

Bram Stoker is considered one of the greats of horror and macabre stories here are collected 12 of his short stories, including, The Squaw, The Bridal of Death, Midnight tales and The Dualitists.

"After it had been reported that in the village of Medvegia the so-called vampires had killed some people by sucking their blood, I was, by high degree of a local Honorable Supreme Command, sent there to investigate the matter thoroughly along with officers detailed for that purpose..." *** So begins the 1732 military report by an Austrian official with respect to an incident he had been sent to investigate. *** It is also the first piece in this collection that traces the development of the myth of the Vampire through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, culminating in the publication of...

Czytamy w oryginale" to seria wydawnicza zawieraj ca adaptacje najwi kszych dzie literatury angloj zycznej. Dwuj zyczna adaptacja powie ci to atrakcyjna pomoc dla ucz cych si j zyka angielskiego. ledz c losy bohaterow, mo emy na bie co porownywa tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacja zosta a przygotowana z my l o czytelnikach rednio zaawansowanych, jednak dzi ki dwuj zycznej wersji z ksi ki mog te korzysta czytelnicy dopiero rozpoczynaj cy nauk angielskiego"

Bram Stoker is of course best known for his novel Dracula which was published in 1897. The novel set the standard for gothic horror fiction and has never been surpassed. In this Omnibus edition are five novels and a book of short stories. Prepare to be terrified: Dracula (1897), The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), The Man (aka: The Gates of Life) (1905), The Lady of the Shroud (1909), The Lair of the White Worm (aka: The Garden of Evil) (1911), Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914), The Dualitists (1887)