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Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
1914 book by Bram Stoker
1914 book by Bram Stoker
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories |
| image | Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914).jpg |
| image_size | 200px |
| caption | Front cover of the first edition |
| author | Bram Stoker |
| cover_artist | Handforth |
| country | United Kingdom |
| genre | Short stories, horror fiction |
| publisher | George Routledge and Sons |
| pub_date | [1914](1914-in-literature) |
| media_type | Print (hardcover) |
| pages | 200 |
| oclc | 3952965 |
| congress | PZ3.S8743 Dr14 PR6037.T617 (Arrow Books, 1974) |
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.
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 first publication | Location of first publication{{Cite web |
|---|---|---|
| last = von Ruff | first = Al | title = The Internet Speculative Fiction Database |
| "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
- "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
References
- Klinger, Leslie S. (2008) The New Annotated Dracula. W.W. Norton & Co.. .
- Skal, David J. (1993). The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror. Penguin Books. .
References
- [https://lccn.loc.gov/75302887 "Dracula's guest"] (Arrow Books, 1974). LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-09-23.
- [https://www.ria.ie/news/dictionary-irish-biography/missing-person-florence-stoker-added-dib "'Missing person' Florence Stoker added to DIB"] Royal Irish Academy, 2020-01-06. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
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