Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
.jpg) Front cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Bram Stoker |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Handforth |
| Genre | Short stories, horror fiction |
| Publisher | George Routledge and Sons |
Publication date | 1914 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 200 |
| OCLC | 3952965 |
| LC Class | PZ3.S8743 Dr14 PR6037.T617 (Arrow Books, 1974)[1] |
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, at the behest of his widow Florence Balcombe.[2]
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
[edit]| Title | Date of first publication | Location of first publication[3] |
|---|---|---|
| "Dracula's Guest" | 1914 | Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories |
| "The Judge's House" | 5 December 1891 | Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News |
| "The Squaw" | 1 December 1893 | Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News |
| "The Secret of the Growing Gold" | 23 January 1892 | Black and White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review |
| "A Gipsy Prophecy" | 1914 | Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories |
| "The Coming of Abel Behenna" | 1914 | Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories |
| "The Burial of the Rats" | 26 January 1896 | Lloyd’s Weekly News |
| "A Dream of Red Hands" | 11 July 1894 | The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality |
| "Crooken Sands" | December 1894 | Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News |
Adaptations
[edit]- "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[citation needed] and as a comic book by Jerry Prosser and Francisco Solano Lopez.[citation needed]
- "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
[edit]- ^ "Dracula's guest" (Arrow Books, 1974). LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-09-23.
- ^ "'Missing person' Florence Stoker added to DIB" Royal Irish Academy, 2020-01-06. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ von Ruff, Al. "The Internet Speculative Fiction Database". Newsarama.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
References
[edit]- 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
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The full text of Dracula's Guest at Wikisource- The full text of The Judge's House at Wikisource
- The full text of The Burial of the Rats at Wikisource
- The full text of A Dream of Red Hands at Wikisource
- The full text of The Coming of Abel Behenna at Wikisource
- The full text of Crooken Sands at Wikisource
- Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories at Project Gutenberg
- Bram Stoker Online – Full text and PDF versions of the entire collection.
Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales public domain audiobook at LibriVox
