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Draculas Gast
208 pages, Leather Bound
Published March 6, 2024
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Bram Stoker
2,662 books5,879 followersIrish-born Abraham Stoker, known as Bram, of Britain wrote the gothic horror novel
Dracula
(1897).
The feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely Stoker at 15 Marino crescent, then as now called "the crescent," in Fairview, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland, bore this third of seven children. The parents, members of church of Ireland, attended the parish church of Saint John the Baptist, located on Seafield road west in Clontarf with their baptized children.
Stoker, an invalid, started school at the age of seven years in 1854, when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."
After his recovery, he, a normal young man, even excelled as a university athlete at Trinity college, Dublin form 1864 to 1870 and graduated with honors in mathematics. He served as auditor of the college historical society and as president of the university philosophical society with his first paper on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society."
In 1876, while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book (The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published 1879) and theatre reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. His interest in theatre led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. He also wrote stories, and in 1872 "The Crystal Cup" was published by the London Society, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in The Shamrock.
In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world.
The Stokers had one son, Irving Noel, who was born on December 31, 1879.
People cremated the body of Bram Stoker and placed his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders green crematorium. After death of Irving Noel Stoker in 1961, people added his ashes to that urn. Despite the original plan to keep ashes of his parents together, after death, people scattered ashes of Florence Stoker at the gardens of rest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker
The feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely Stoker at 15 Marino crescent, then as now called "the crescent," in Fairview, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland, bore this third of seven children. The parents, members of church of Ireland, attended the parish church of Saint John the Baptist, located on Seafield road west in Clontarf with their baptized children.
Stoker, an invalid, started school at the age of seven years in 1854, when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years."
After his recovery, he, a normal young man, even excelled as a university athlete at Trinity college, Dublin form 1864 to 1870 and graduated with honors in mathematics. He served as auditor of the college historical society and as president of the university philosophical society with his first paper on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society."
In 1876, while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book (The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published 1879) and theatre reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. His interest in theatre led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. He also wrote stories, and in 1872 "The Crystal Cup" was published by the London Society, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in The Shamrock.
In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager (at first as acting-manager) of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the course of Irving's tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world.
The Stokers had one son, Irving Noel, who was born on December 31, 1879.
People cremated the body of Bram Stoker and placed his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders green crematorium. After death of Irving Noel Stoker in 1961, people added his ashes to that urn. Despite the original plan to keep ashes of his parents together, after death, people scattered ashes of Florence Stoker at the gardens of rest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker
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November 9, 2025
9 schaurige und mysteriöse Kurzgeschichten aus der Feder des Urvaters des Horrorgenres. Mysteriös und spannend.
Ich hab gar nicht so auf den Klappentext geachtet aber nachdem mir Dracula so gut gefallen hat, wollte ich auch Draculas Gast lesen.
Ich dachte irgendwie es ist die Vorgeschichte zu Dracula aber da hab ich mich leider getäuscht. Denn wir haben hier nur das inoffizielle erste Kapitel zu Dracula. Der Rest des Buches besteht aus 8 weiteren schaurigen Kurzgeschichten.
Das Kapitel hat mir aber wieder sehr gut gefallen auch wenn es nicht sehr lang war aber war trotzdem nochmal schön, in die Welt einzutauchen.
Ansonsten haben wir sehr mysteriöse Kurzgeschichten, die gar nicht mal so brutal und blutig waren wie man es sonst von Bram Stoker, dem Urvater des Horrorgenres, kennt. Aber man ist in jede Geschichte eingetaucht und fieberte mit, was wohl am Ende passieren wird.
Toll fand ich auch, dass eine Geschichte in Nürnberg spielt. Mit dem Schauplatz der Burg hab ich mich gleich heimelig gefühlt, denn es ist meine Heimatstadt. Somit hab ich dies nochmal intensiver gefühlt.
Ja alles in allem kann man das Buch ruhig mal lesen. Es war spannend und hat mich gut unterhalten. Und auch die Geisterfans kommen hier nicht zu kurz. Es war eher leichter und seichter Grusel als man es von Dracula her kennt.
Ich hab gar nicht so auf den Klappentext geachtet aber nachdem mir Dracula so gut gefallen hat, wollte ich auch Draculas Gast lesen.
Ich dachte irgendwie es ist die Vorgeschichte zu Dracula aber da hab ich mich leider getäuscht. Denn wir haben hier nur das inoffizielle erste Kapitel zu Dracula. Der Rest des Buches besteht aus 8 weiteren schaurigen Kurzgeschichten.
Das Kapitel hat mir aber wieder sehr gut gefallen auch wenn es nicht sehr lang war aber war trotzdem nochmal schön, in die Welt einzutauchen.
Ansonsten haben wir sehr mysteriöse Kurzgeschichten, die gar nicht mal so brutal und blutig waren wie man es sonst von Bram Stoker, dem Urvater des Horrorgenres, kennt. Aber man ist in jede Geschichte eingetaucht und fieberte mit, was wohl am Ende passieren wird.
Toll fand ich auch, dass eine Geschichte in Nürnberg spielt. Mit dem Schauplatz der Burg hab ich mich gleich heimelig gefühlt, denn es ist meine Heimatstadt. Somit hab ich dies nochmal intensiver gefühlt.
Ja alles in allem kann man das Buch ruhig mal lesen. Es war spannend und hat mich gut unterhalten. Und auch die Geisterfans kommen hier nicht zu kurz. Es war eher leichter und seichter Grusel als man es von Dracula her kennt.
January 17, 2025
I think most of the short story’s were really good, I never knew what would happen next
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