Written in epistolary fashion, Stoker introduces us to the young solicitor Jonathan Harker as he travels to Transylvania to assist Count Dracula in a real estate transaction. While the first chapter starts off pleasantly enough, Harker soon begins to note odd happenings and details of the people and events he experiences while travelling deeper and deeper into the Carpathians. Gloomy castles standing high in the mountains, odd figures half-obscured by the dark, eerie landscapes with flashing lights, and howling wolves trail Harker as he journeys ... unaware of the mystery and horrors he and his love Mina Murray are soon to become entangled with. Only with the help of such noted characters as Professor Van Helsing, John Seward, Arthur Holmwood, and Quincey Morris does good prevail over evil.
Abraham "Bram" Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 in Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, the third of seven children--William Thornley, Mathilda, Thomas, Richard, Margaret, and George--born to Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely (1818-1901) and Abraham Stoker (1799-1876), Civil Servant. He was a sickly child, spending great amounts of time bed-ridden, barely able to walk. However, having fully recovered, in 1864 he entered Trinity College, Dublin to study mathematics, and, despite his earlier years of illness became involved in athletics, winning many awards. He was also elected President of the Philosophical Society. After graduating with honours in 1870 he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Civil Service with Dublin Castle, which inspired his The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879). From his great love of the arts Stoker also started to write theatre reviews for the Dublin Evening Mail. One particular review of a performance of William Shakespeare's Hamlet with actor [Sir] Henry Irving (1838-1905) in the lead role led to a great friendship between the two men and in 1878 Irving asked Stoker to be the manager of his Lyceum Theatre in London, England, a position he held for almost thirty years. Later Stoker would publish Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (2 volumes, 1906) and Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908) which includes such theatre-based stories as "The Slim Syrens", "Mick the Devil", and "A Star Trap".
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Bram Stoker died in London, England on 20 April 1912. His ashes were mingled with his son's and they now rest in the Golders Green Crematorium in London, England. His wife Florence survived him by twenty-five years and had Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories published in 1922. Some claim that the story "Dracula's Guest" was actually supposed to be the first chapter for his novel Dracula. It also includes such titles as "The Gipsy Prophecy", "The Burial of the Rats", "A Dream of Red Hands", and "The Secret of the Growing Gold".
I have done exstensive reading of the horror genre, and I have found that much of post Stoker horror seems to use Dracula as a template for it's villains. Dracula himself can be considered a very terrifying villain, in that he remains in the shadows for the majority of the novel, creating a sense of suspense and mystique surrounding the character. And, if one looks to more modern horror, many villains fall under this category.Take Lovecraft as an example. Lovecraft, though he deviates slightly from Stokers craft of the villain, making them into intangible monstrosities, we will usually not see the villain until the end of the piece, as his eldritch abominations often lurk just below the...
On the basis of a new Dracula thread in General Literature, the idea came to me that we might find it interesting to look at Stoker's Gothic/Victorian template and compare it with others, like Pollidori, Viereck, and contemporary upgrades, whether it is Rice or the Radleys.I'll have to *review*, and so I may be slow, but think it worthwhile....
I have recently read Dracula which of course I loved considering my interest in the Gothic, as well as my long time obsession with vampires. I thought the book was a true work of brilliancy........but to get to the topic at hand.I am currently involved in a discussion of the book with a group I belong to on Goodreads, and a few people have expressed their belief that Stoker was a chauvinist and one of the primary reasons for this opinion was because of his referral to Mina's intelligence as being "man-like." I myself simply accepted this as the general thinking of the time period.While certainly there are what can be seen as chauvinist ideas expressed within Dracula, many of these ...
Cannot help but wonder why there is not a Collected Short Fiction of Bram Stoker, containing UNDER THE SUNSET, SNOWBOUND, DRACULA'S GUEST, and the uncollected stories (I count at least thirteen, anthologized in such books as SHADES OF DRACULA, MIDNIGHT TALES, THE BRAM STOKER BEDSIDE COMPANION, THE PRIMROSE PATH, etc.)?...
This is selfish, so let me just say that up front:My husband and I are taking a graduate level Victorian Adaptations course and we each have to do a 15-20 page final paper. We'd like to focus on Dracula. My husband wants to do something with The Historian and Dracula and I want to do the originary novel and the film with Keanu Reeves. Our professor suggested that our papers be somehow linked, or dependent on each other in some way. Obviously, we'll have to do a lot of research in order to come up with a general thesis, but does anyone have any ideas that we could get excited about? "Role of the Epistolary", for example, is too general, but we thought something with that. We're enti...
I decided to have a prowl around the Bram Stoker section and was very surprised to find that The Snakes Pass was not here!I thuroughly enjoyed this story and have read it many times. Its not really scare more of a thrilleresque... Loosely based on legands and mythology....
Had Bram Stoker continued in the same vein and style as he did in the beginning of "Dracula" the book would have given me shivers throughout the reading. Regrettably, Stoker seemed to have diluted his horror and spent more time on boosting the male ego and portraying women as being nothing but the admirers of the male sex. I did enjoy the read but found it difficult to go through the last quarter with it's mushy dialogues.Why, oh why, did Stoker have to introduce Helsing as a foreigner? Couldn't a simple Englishmen have done the job? His verbosity merely added to the thickness of the book and little to make the narrative more crisp.Anybody else have the same feeling?...
Can anyone tell me where to find the chapter "The count's guest" (or something like that)? It was published two years after Bram Stoker's death, by his wife.I can not find it, and I would very much like to read it, since this book is a masterpiece.As Charlotte Stoker wrote to her son, shortly after Dracula was published in 1897:"No book since Mary Shelly's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality and terror..."Hoping for an answer.Linda...
hey guysim doing an english assignment on stoker and was wondering wat ur opinion is on the following statement"Bram Stoker: Brilliant or Psychotic?"i would just like some ideas on wat other people thinkplz note that i wont be using anything u have said directly in this assignmentthis is just a starting point for me....one of which i realli need!!!thanx heaps...
I am curious as to what involvement, if any, did Bram Stoker have with The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. His name seems to appear in various texts as a member yet I do not see it mentioned here on the Literature Network site....
Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited theBritish Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the libraryregarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some foreknowledge of thecountry could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with anobleman of that country. I find that the district he named is in theextreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states,Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathianmountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. I wasnot able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of theCastle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to comparewith our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the posttown named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enterhere some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over mytravels with Mina.
In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities:Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are thedescendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in theEast and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descendedfrom Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for when the Magyars conqueredthe country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it. Iread that every known superstition in the world is gathered into thehorseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort ofimaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., Imust ask the Count all about them.)
All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full ofbeauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on thetop of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran byrivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each sideof them to be subject to great floods. It takes a lot of water, andrunning strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear. At everystation there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in all sortsof attire. Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those Isaw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hatsand home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque. The womenlooked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsyabout the waist. They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other,and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of somethingfluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course therewere petticoats under them. The strangest figures we saw were theSlovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boyhats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormousheavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brassnails. They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, andhad long black hair and heavy black moustaches. They are verypicturesque, but do not look prepossessing. On the stage they would beset down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands. They are,however, I am told, very harmless and rather wanting in naturalself-assertion. 152ee80cbc
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