- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New e. edition (21 Jun 1979)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0246111399
- ISBN-13: 978-0246111395
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,181,480 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A slightly unusual Verne story that starts off as a supernatural tale, but turns out to be about experiments in electricity being used to frighten Transylvanian villagers and lure a love rival into a trap. Lightweight and engaging.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Getting the Carpathian Ambiance
11 July 2000
Format:Hardcover
I recently travelled in the Carpathians and read this book while travelling. It gives one a good sense of what this area was like 100 years ago, particularly the thinking of the people. Jules Verne's prescience is impressive
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Skip it.
30 Mar 2002
Format:Hardcover
Having read short reviews of this book, I expected an undiscovered gem, Jules Verne's take on DRACULA, and found it instead slight and tedious, a short story worth of drama drawn out to 190 pages. It's easy to make this sound interesting, being about the clash of superstition and technology, set around a mysterious castle the locals believe haunted. But don't be fooled. This may have a bit of "gothic" atmosphere, but to present-day readers it does not deliver on its supernatural aura. Today, this is a footnote, interesting mainly for the 19th century description of still uninvented, but now commonplace, technology.
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