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Horror Stories Collection: Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Four horror stories in one collection, and also available for purchase on audible.
These horror stories are intended to frighten, startle and even disgust the reader. The tales of blood-sucking vampires, headless horsemen, hideous creatures and transformed humans will leave you terrified yet compelled to listen to the next. Story 1: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Blood-thirsty Count Dracula travels across the seas to find a new source of life in the people of England. He targets young Lucy as his victim, revealing to the townspeople that a vampire has infiltrated their community. As the horror story unfolds, Dr. Abraham Van Helsing rallies the good people of the town to seek revenge on Dracula and his power of darkness. Story 2: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
In an attempt to separate the sinister, self-indulgent side of himself from the usually amiable personality, Dr. Henry Jekyll develops a potion in his laboratory that transforms him into the self-indulgent, evil Mr. Hyde. The struggle between good and evil ultimately forces Dr. Jekyll to take his own life to put an end to the evil doings of Mr. Hyde. This horrific tale sheds light on the unpredictable nature of the alter ego. Story 3: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Scientist Victor Frankenstein experiments in his laboratory to impart life into non-living matter. “The Creature” takes on human characteristics and emotions, eventually asking his creator to build him a companion to ensure his right to happiness. Taunting Frankenstein with threats of harm and death, the fiend ultimately takes everything that is dear to him. Story 4: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
A feud over the hand of a wealthy heiress, Katrina Van Tassel, leads to the supposed demise of one of her suitors, Ichabod Crane. As legend in Sleepy Hollow has it, a Headless Horseman, the ghost of a fallen soldier, wanders through the forest in search of his severed head. When Crane comes across the apparition, he is either killed or is so terrified by its sight that he flees, to never be heard from again. Thus, perpetuating the haunting tale told to unnerved children.
These horror stories are intended to frighten, startle and even disgust the reader. The tales of blood-sucking vampires, headless horsemen, hideous creatures and transformed humans will leave you terrified yet compelled to listen to the next. Story 1: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Blood-thirsty Count Dracula travels across the seas to find a new source of life in the people of England. He targets young Lucy as his victim, revealing to the townspeople that a vampire has infiltrated their community. As the horror story unfolds, Dr. Abraham Van Helsing rallies the good people of the town to seek revenge on Dracula and his power of darkness. Story 2: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
In an attempt to separate the sinister, self-indulgent side of himself from the usually amiable personality, Dr. Henry Jekyll develops a potion in his laboratory that transforms him into the self-indulgent, evil Mr. Hyde. The struggle between good and evil ultimately forces Dr. Jekyll to take his own life to put an end to the evil doings of Mr. Hyde. This horrific tale sheds light on the unpredictable nature of the alter ego. Story 3: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Scientist Victor Frankenstein experiments in his laboratory to impart life into non-living matter. “The Creature” takes on human characteristics and emotions, eventually asking his creator to build him a companion to ensure his right to happiness. Taunting Frankenstein with threats of harm and death, the fiend ultimately takes everything that is dear to him. Story 4: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
A feud over the hand of a wealthy heiress, Katrina Van Tassel, leads to the supposed demise of one of her suitors, Ichabod Crane. As legend in Sleepy Hollow has it, a Headless Horseman, the ghost of a fallen soldier, wanders through the forest in search of his severed head. When Crane comes across the apparition, he is either killed or is so terrified by its sight that he flees, to never be heard from again. Thus, perpetuating the haunting tale told to unnerved children.
739 pages, Paperback
Published June 13, 2020
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About the author
Bram Stoker
2,596 books5,857 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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