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The Gates of Life (1905), also published as The Man, is a novel by Irish author, Bram Stoker. Written at the height of his career, The Gates of Life helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror's reputation as a leading writer of the early-twentieth century. Inspired by the archetype of the New Woman-a type of literary character incorporating elements of 19th century feminism-Stoker crafts, a novel capable of captivating the reader, while...
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A chilling collection of classic gothic short stories written by Bram Stoker, all connected through the theme of vampires. "Gothic fiction" is a subgenre of Gothic horror that is defined by a combination of fiction writing with horror, death, and sometimes romance. It arguably originated from the 1764 novel "The Castle of Otranto" by English author Horace Walpole, which was subtitled "A Gothic Story" after the second edition. Abraham "Bram" Stoker...
63) Burial Of Rats
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Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post's Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. Bram Stoker, the master of horror and dark mind behind the most famous vampire...
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Sink your teeth into the ageless tale of the famous vampire Count Dracula.
Dracula first horrified readers over 125 years ago. Today, this original gothic masterpiece includes a detailed exploration into the 1897 classic vampire novel and its author, Bram Stoker.
In this bonus introduction,
• Learn about Stoker's early life, his colorful career, and the famous friends he made leading up to the creation of his magnum opus, Dracula.
• Tune...
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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 aparición en las páginas de la novela...
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El engendro maldito: Un juez, siete jurados y un testigo deben aclarar la causa de una muerte. Pero, salvo al testigo, a los demás no les interesa saber qué pasó.
La torre de los tormentos: Un grupo de turistas visitan un castillo medieval sin imaginar la experiencia que están a punto de vivir.
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Blood, gore, murder, and sin-Victorian literature's darkest horrors await you.
The penny dreadfuls were cheap nineteenth-century English stories that featured gothic, lurid, disturbing, and tantalizing content. These horror serials cost a penny per issue, hence their name: penny dreadfuls. The penny dreadfuls often paid homage to-and even inspired-many of the more famous narratives of the horror genre.
This book pairs three obscure yet influential...
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Las leyendas de vampiros han fascinado al ser humano en multitud de pueblos y culturas diferentes a lo largo de toda su historia, desde el confín de los tiempos hasta nuestros días. Lo que para muchos es el fruto de una imaginación excesiva y que raya en lo genial de mentes que no contaban con los conocimientos científicos suficientes, el fruto de una supersticiosa ignorancia, para otros ha supuesto la oportunidad de atribuirle una posibilidad...
69) Halloween Horror
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Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. From ghost stories to spine-chilling mysteries, the horror genre is perfect reading for the Halloween season and year-round. Including Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, Robert Louis Stevenson's THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, and Bram Stoker's DRACULA, these terrifying tales will stay with you long after they're finished....
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Collins Classics brings you a haunting selection of the finest horror stories from classic literature - featuring works by Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mary Shelley - with additional content.
Complete with a Life & Times section for each author, which offers insights into their lives, works and the time of publication, and a handy glossary adapted from the Collins English Dictionary, this Collins Classics Collection will...
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Musaicum Books presents to you a selection of the greatest horror classics, the greatest Vampire and Werewolf tales:
Contents:
Vampires:
The Vampyre (John William Polidori)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker)
Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier)
Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu)
Vikram and the Vampire (Sir Richard Francis Burton)
The Vampire (Jan Neruda)
Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood (Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer)
The...
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The iconic Gothic horror classics that gave birth to the monstrous myths that still inhabit our nightmares. Tragic heroines, windswept moors, dark and stormy nights, castle prisons, and forbidden desires realized at the greatest cost-these are the elements of Gothic horror, given its finest expression in these five enduring novels. Frankenstein: Obsessed with the secret of creation, Swiss scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein cobbles together a body he...
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Vampires have fascinated mankind for centuries. These creatures of the night enthrall us, terrify us, and seduce us. The Vampire Super Pack brings together 42 vampires stories spanning almost 200 years. With over 225,000 words of fascinating fiction this is the Vampire anthology you've been waiting for. Included herein are:
• 'Lipstick on a Business Card' by Alledria Hurt
• 'The Vampyre' by John William Polidori
• 'Saving Grace' by Lillian Csernica
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Superb selection of 14 spine-tingling stories by author of Dracula. "The Squaw," "The Burial of the Rats," "The Crystal Cup," "The Chain of Destiny," "The Castle of the King," "The Dualists" (probably Stoker's most horrifying story), "A Dream of Red Hands" and 7 more. Called by Stephen King "absolutely champion short stories." Introduction by Richard Dalby.
75) Buried Treasures
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Robert Hamilton is a young man on a mission to marry Ellen, a beautiful young lady who is unattainable to him due to his lack of resources and means of providing. Robert soon enlists the help of his friend Tom to seek out a long known of buried treasure in hopes that he can attain the means by which to support the woman he loves. Originally published as a serial in 1875, Buried Treasures is a masterpiece of Bram Stoker, who while famously...
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Escrito antes que Drácula, en este cuento Bram Stocker despliega todo su talento en la narración en primera persona de un joven inglés que visita los barrios marginales de París y termina viviendo una odisea macabra desatada solo por la curiosidad frente a una realidad tan diferente a la suya.
77) The Way Of Peace
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The Way Of Peace recounts the tale of how a young bachelor learns of the secret to a happy, successful marriage from an old couple just celebrating their 50th anniversary. Told in the charming Irish accent of the old couple, the story takes on the feel of a delightful advice manual.
78) Greater Love
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Bill and Joe, two best friends, discover they have both fallen in love with Mary, a girl they have grown up with and enjoyed a close friendship with throughout their lives. They both decide that they do not want to tell her about their feelings, but they must do something about it before another man comes along and steals her away. And so they decide that Joe will go to her first and confess his feelings, and let Mary decide if she feels the same...
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"El huésped de Drácula" de Bram Stoker es una novela corta que forma parte de una colección de relatos de terror. La colección incluye algunos episodios inéditos, como éste en cuestión que, por lo que se dice se corresponde con el primer capítulo de la mítica novela de Drácula, pero que su editor recortó por considerarla innecesaria para el conjunto.