“Dracula’s Guest”. A short story by the author of the legendary Dracula, Bram Stoker, unpublished while he was alive, introduces us to the mysterious gothic atmosphere of both the magnificent novel about the most famous vampire and the other short stories in this volume.
Bram Stoker was born in Clontarf, Ireland, in 1847 and died in London in 1912. In his youth he was an athlete, and despite the health problems he experienced as a child, he completed his studies at Trinity College.
He went on to become a journalist, biographer, writer, and theatre critic. Through his long and close association with the actor Henry Irving, he served as manager of Irving’s theatre for 27 years.
Bram Stoker became famous for his novel Dracula (1897), a landmark work of Gothic literature that has seen numerous editions and adaptations for both stage and screen.
Stoker, who from an early stage showed an inclination toward the strange and the supernatural—has sometimes been associated in secondary literature with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an occult society later linked to Aleister Crowley—also wrote other works with similar themes.
The author with the incomparable talent and unique writing, did live long enough to see the short stories contained here published, as he passed away in 1912.
Since their first publication in 1914, they have been published in countless editions, becoming a subject of study to many scholars of his work. Let us, then, follow the eerie adventures of his heroes, prepared for the unpredictable, the macabre, the nightmarish…