Review
One of the most powerful horror tales ever written (Malcolm Bradbury ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Margaret L. Carter, Bradley University
Elizabeth Miller, Memorial University
Book Description
Product Description
This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University.
‘There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.’
Thus Bram Stoker, one of the greatest exponents of the supernatural narrative, describes the demonic subject of his chilling masterpiece Dracula, a truly iconic and unsettling tale of vampirism.
From the Back Cover
INCLUDES A ROUGH GUIDE TO THE ORIGINS AND LEGACY OF THIS DEFINITIVE VAMPIRE STORY, FROM RECOMMENDED VAMPIRIC BOOKS AND FILMS TO FASCINATING AND BIZARRE FACTS ABOUT VAMPIRES PAST AND PRESENT, MYTHICAL AND REAL.
'The door is shut, and the chains rattle; there is a grinding of the key in the lock; I hear the creaking of lock and bolt...I shall not remain alone with them. I may find a way from this dreadful place, away from this cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet!'
Young lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania on business for a mysterious Count. Months later in England, beautiful Lucy Westenra falls ill and dies, inexplicably, as if from a severe loss of blood. Lucy's friends, including Jonathan's fiancée Mina and the intrepid doctor Van Helsing, must begin a desperate battle against a powerful, ancient evil, in Bram Stoker's definitive gothic tale.
'Those who cannot find their own reflection in Bram Stoker's still-living creation are surely the undead' New York Times
'A nineteenth-century world of phantoms, mystery and dread' Sunday Telegraph
'Staggeringly lurid and perverse' Sarah Waters
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
