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

"A Dream of Red Hands" is a short story by Bram Stoker. It was first published in the July 11, 1894 issue of The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, London.

When Archibald Hunter comes to Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire for his annual holiday he is looking forward to a tranquil few days by the sea, but he is disturbed by strange visions and portents of doom. Where are these terrible visions taking him? And what is the significance of the pages of cipher?

This short story was written by Bram Stoker the world famous author of Dracula. In it a married couple, after trying for many years, has a set of identical twins. The dote on the twins for three years unaware that two neighborhood boys have developed an obsession for destroying things. At first the boys ruin various objects found in their houses. However, as time goes by they become bored with inanimate objects and decide to move on to something else.

"Crooken Sands" is a short story by Bram Stoker. A London merchant takes his family on a Scottish vacation and ends up experiencing a most mysterious horrifying adventure...

Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and color, give a promise of the glory and beauty that encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams. This Country is the Land Under the Sunset. This is the story of that Country, and what happened when evil came to abide there. It is a story all of us must hear.

El conde Drácula es uno de los personajes literarios más famosos de todos los tiempos y fruto de la imaginación del autor irlandés Bram Stoker (1847-1912). Un inmortal vampiro deja los oscuros rincones de su castillo en Transilvania para emprender una macabra aventura en Inglaterra, dejando a su paso muerte, miedo y cambiando para siempre la vida de todos aquellos que se cruzan en su camino.Hace su primera aparicion en las paginas de la novela homonima, "Dracula" (1897) y pronto despierta en el publico universal un apetito voraz por las leyendas vampiricas, inspirando a su vez a numerosos imitadores y dejando tras de si un legado cultural que llegaria hasta nuestros dias. Bram Stoker escribio otras novelas y relatos, antes y despues de "Dracula", y aunque no consiguieron alcanzar el mismo nivel de fama, en ellos demostro un dominio de diversos temas y generos.En el presente volumen, acompañando a su obra cumbre, "Dracula", se encuentran reunidos nueve de sus mejores relatos de terror, repletos de su caracteristica atmosfera gotica y de escenarios perfectos para explorar los limites del horror humano. Contiene ilustraciones ineditas de Alejandro Diaz.

I would rather be an angel than God!The voice of the speaker sounded clearly through the hawthorn tree. The young man and the young girl who sat together on the low tombstone looked at each other. They had heard the voices of the two children talking, but had not noticed what they said; it was the sentiment, not the sound, which roused their attention.The girl put her finger to her lips to impress silence, and the man nodded; they sat as still as mice whilst the two children went on talking.The scene would have gladdened a painters heart. An old churchyard. The church low and square-towered, with long mullioned windows, the yellow-grey stone roughened by age and tender-hued with lichens. Round it clustered many tombstones tilted in all directions. Behind the church a line of gnarled and twisted yews.The churchyard was full of fine trees. On one side a magnificent cedar; on the other a great copper beech. Here and there among the tombs and headstones many beautiful blossoming trees rose from the long green grass. The laburnum glowed in the June afternoon sunlight; the lilac, the hawthorn and the clustering meadowsweet which fringed the edge of the lazy stream mingled their heavy sweetness in sleepy fragrance. The yellow-grey crumbling walls were green in places with wrinkled harts-tongues, and were topped with sweet-williams and spreading house-leek and stone-crop and wild-flowers whose delicious sweetness made for the drowsy repose of perfect summer.

"All turned out as I wishedat least, nearly soas shall be seen. Being in the bow, I had, of course, a better view than from the bridge. Presently I made out that the boat, which had all along seemed to be of a queer shape, was none other than a Coffin, and that the woman standing up in it was clothed in a shroud. Her back was towards us, and she had evidently not heard our approach. As we were creeping along slowly, the engines were almost noiseless, and there was hardly a ripple as our fore-foot cut the dark water. Suddenly there was a wild cry from the bridgeItalians are certainly very excitable; hoarse commands were given to the Quartermaster at the wheel; the engine-room bell clanged. On the instant, as it seemed, the ships head began to swing round to starboard; full steam ahead was in action, and before one could understand, the Apparition was fading in the distance. The last thing I saw was the flash of a white face with dark, burning eyes as the figure sank down into the coffinjust as mist or smoke disappears under a breeze.

It all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a fresh step in the logic of things, but as something expected. It is in such a wise that memory plays its pranks for good or ill; for pleasure or pain; for weal or woe. It is thus that life is bittersweet, and that which has been done becomes eternal.

Adam Salton sauntered into the Empire Club, Sydney, and found awaiting him a letter from his granduncle. He had first heard from the old gentleman less than a year before, when Richard Salton had claimed kinship, stating that he had been unable to write earlier, as he had found it very difficult to trace his grandnephews address. Adam was delighted and replied cordially; he had often heard his father speak of the older branch of the family with whom his people had long lost touch. Some interesting correspondence had ensued. Adam eagerly opened the letter which had only just arrived, and conveyed a cordial invitation to stop with his granduncle at Lesser Hill, for as long a time as he could spare.Indeed, Richard Salton went on, I am in hopes that you will make your permanent home here. You see, my dear boy, you and I are all that remain of our race, and it is but fitting that you should succeed me when the time comes. In this year of grace, 1860, I am close on eighty years of age, and though we have been a longlived race, the span of life cannot be prolonged beyond reasonable bounds. I am prepared to like you, and to make your home with me as happy as you could wish. So do come at once on receipt of this, and find the welcome I am waiting to give you. I send, in case such may make matters easy for you, a bankers draft for 200. Come soon, so that we may both of us enjoy many happy days together. If you are able to give me the pleasure of seeing you, send me as soon as you can a letter telling me when to expect you. Then when you arrive at Plymouth or Southampton or whatever port you are bound for, wait on board, and I will meet you at the earliest hour possible.

A few months before the lamented death of my husbandI might say even as the shadow of death was over himhe planned three series of short stories for publication, and the present volume is one of them. To his original list of stories in this book, I have added an hitherto unpublished episode from Dracula. It was originally excised owing to the length of the book, and may prove of interest to the many readers of what is considered my husbands most remarkable work. The other stories have already been published in English and American periodicals. Had my husband lived longer, he might have seen fit to revise this work, which is mainly from the earlier years of his strenuous life. But, as fate has entrusted to me the issuing of it, I consider it fitting and proper to let it go forth practically as it was left by him.

My Friend.Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well tonight. At three tomorrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land.Your friend,Dracula.

El conde Drácula es una creación literaria gestada en un espacio y tiempo concretos. El lugar de procedencia de Drácula, los Cárpatos rumanos, no fue visitado por Stoker, y los conocimientos que este tenia acerca del pais parecen provenir de las consultas a una guia de viajes y, principalmente, de las conversaciones con un supuesto profesor de origen hungaro llamado Arminius Vambery.

El viaje de Jonathan Harker al castillo del conde Drácula tenía que estar un viaje de negocios y placer. Pero al llegar el joven descubre terribles secretos y vive una serie de experiencias impresionantes ... Con la imaginacion y la capacidad descriptiva de Stoker, el protagonista se ve impotente ante la malignidad y los poderes del vampiro. Los hechos mas tragicos y crueles se van sucediendo de una manera irreversible.

La presente edizione e unica; La traduzione e completamente originale ed e stata eseguita per la societa Ale. Mar. SAS; Tutti i diritti sono riservati. Dracula e un romanzo horror gotico del 1897 dellautore irlandese Bram Stoker. La storia del famigerato vampiro Conte Dracula, signore dei non morti, che di notte si alza dalla sua bara per succhiare il sangue dei vivi e, senza dubbio, roba da incubi. Un manicomio, un tetro castello della Transilvania, un antico cimitero; questi sono gli sfondi oscuri delle azioni ancora piu oscure ritratte in questo racconto agghiacciante.

Nesta nova edição revisada, trazemos uma das mais famosas e horripilantes histórias de terror de todos os tempos. Drácula é uma história de vampiros e de mortos-vivos baseada no folclore da Transilv

Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunt Dracula and, in the end, - Just Read the eBook Find Out...

Lady Athlyne is a romance novel by Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula), written in 1908. It was published one year before the release of Stokers The Lady of the Shroud. The novel begins on a journey from New York to Italy. Joy and her Aunt Judith meet Mrs. OBrian who claims to have fostered Earl Athlyne. Since Mrs. OBrien describes the Earl Athlynes son in such great detail all of the women, including Joy, begin to develop an interest in a man they had never met or heard of until that moment. Her Aunt Judy even calls her Lady Athlyne. The mysterious woman warns them that by linking her name to his that they have sealed her fate and Aunt Judy believes that there is truth to this statement. At first, the women are careful not to tell anyone about their joke or their (secret) but it is used in front of Joys father by mistake. He warns her that by linking her name to a man she does not know can harm her in the future.

Jonathon Harker travels to Transylvania in Eastern Europe to do business with a mysterious man, Count Dracula.On his way to the count''s castle he is warned by many, even provided with crucifixes, and almost attacked by wolves.To his surprise, upon reaching the castle, Harker is confronted by a professional and gentle man - that is up until he realises he has been made the count''s prisoner. While he is under serious threat in the castle, strange things happen elsewhere - a Russian ship is wrecked and a woman is found with bite-marks on her neck.The great power and ambition of the count manifests itself in deaths and looming evils, causing a group, including the escaped Harker, to hunt Dracula down and kill him.Dracula is an intense horror flavoured with the perils of seduction, desire and identity.