What do you think?
Rate this book
Classic Horror Collection
Read the Original Halloween Spooky Stories This Classic Horror Collection is the ultimate book bundle for readers of classic gothic, vampire, horror and science fiction. Each masterful novel in this collection has inspired numerous adaptations, re-imaginings, and even whole genres of fiction.
This collection
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells This Classic Horror Collection has been professionally formatted for e-readers and includes a linked table of contents.
We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.
For more great book club picks, check out :
This collection
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells This Classic Horror Collection has been professionally formatted for e-readers and includes a linked table of contents.
We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.
For more great book club picks, check out :
- GenresClassics
823 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 9, 2015
114 people are currently reading
109 people want to read
About the author
Bram Stoker
1,670 books5,924 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
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
Read
April 6, 2020The more i think about it, aside from the abrupt ending, the more this is a classic and the defining genre. I read the Historian shortly after and still think this is the better novel, albeit more romanticised
Dracula is just a wandering beautiful novel. I re-read this after listening to the audiobook. And perhaps Dracula is a little naieve in characterisation, but the sense of dread feels so real. Its also great how the hidden character is the locations where key scenes are set, notably Whitby.
I love the themes in this, the overriding one of submission, obedience, of giving in or resisting. Its very very psychological and the book is an almost collective nervous breakdown when faced with an overwhelming enemy. Harker is a fascinating character (Jonathan), and Van Helsing has this enigmatic role.
Dracula is just a wandering beautiful novel. I re-read this after listening to the audiobook. And perhaps Dracula is a little naieve in characterisation, but the sense of dread feels so real. Its also great how the hidden character is the locations where key scenes are set, notably Whitby.
I love the themes in this, the overriding one of submission, obedience, of giving in or resisting. Its very very psychological and the book is an almost collective nervous breakdown when faced with an overwhelming enemy. Harker is a fascinating character (Jonathan), and Van Helsing has this enigmatic role.
Displaying 1 of 1 review