Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before "Twilight" and "True Blood", vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, "Dracula". Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories ...
Read More
Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before "Twilight" and "True Blood", vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, "Dracula". Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Aleksei Tolstoy's tale of a vampire family to Fitz James O'Brien's invisible monster to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rich and sinister widow, Good Lady Ducayne. Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and finishes the collection with Stoker's own Dracula's Guest - a chapter omitted from his landmark novel. Vampires captivated Victorian society, and these wonderful stories demonstrate how Romantic and Victorian writers refined the raw ore of peasant superstition into a whole vampire mythology of aristocratic decadence and innocence betrayed.
Read Less
Add this copy of Dracula's Guest: a Connoisseur's Collection of to cart. $43.35, new condition, Sold by Alpha 2 Omega Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southampton, HANTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
New. Mint condition. Bloomsbury, 2011. First paperback edition-first printing (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Small format paperback (very small crease and nick on the edges of the cover) in mint condition. The book is new.467pp including Bibliography and suggested further reading.
Add this copy of Dracula's Guest: a Connoisseur's Collection of to cart. $55.81, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Walker Books.
Add this copy of Dracula's Guest: a Connoisseur's Collection of to cart. $74.69, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Walker Books.
Add this copy of Dracula's Guest: a Connoisseur's Collection of to cart. $110.06, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Walker Books.
Add this copy of Dracula's Guest: a Connoisseur's Collection of to cart. $154.28, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Bloomsbury UK.
Those who never tire of reading stories about the undead should find this anthology a veritable treat, - 20 bloodcurdling tales, each one a feast for friends of this genre.
'Dracula's guest' is a connoisseur's delight, especially if one reads it in bed on a cold night when the wind is howling wildly and the windows are rattling. Twenty such tales for twenty such nights.
penny k
Mar 22, 2013
Some good stories!
I've enjoyed the stories I've read so far!
It's a good book for fans of horror stories.
