Dracula: The Novel and the Legend - A Study of Bram Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece

Literature & Fiction

LEATHERDALE, CLIVE

History & Criticism

Desert Island Books

Treatise on Vampires & Revenants : The Phantom World

History

Calmet, Augustin

Christmas, Henry

Calmet, Dom

World

The Origins of Dracula: The Background to Bram Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece

Malcolm Ross, a young barrister, is awakened in the middle of the night and summoned to the house of famous Egyptologist Abel Trelawny at the request of his daughter, Margaret, with whom Malcolm is enamored. Once Malcolm arrives at the house, he meets Margaret, Superintendent Dolan, and Doctor Winchester, and learns why he has been called: Margaret, hearing strange noises from her father’s bedroom, woke to find him unconscious and bloodied on the floor of his room, under some sort of trance. Margaret reveals that her father had left a letter of strange instructions in the event of his incapacitation, stating that his body should not be removed from his room and must be watched at all times until he wakes up.

The Jewel of Seven Stars

Stoker., Bram

Genre Fiction

Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow

Complete with 3500 notes and annotations, this edition of Bram Stoker's classic horror tale includes a dramatis personae and an introduction that challenges many of the misconceptions attached to the novel.

Dracula Unearthed

Contemporary

Snowbound: Theatrical Touring Party

Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party

Whiteman, Bruce

Wightman, Bruce

Short Stories & Anthologies

Bram Stoker bequeathed more than Dracula and other lesser-known novels when he died in April 1912. He had also written works of non-fiction, most notably Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving and Famous Impostors. As for his numerous shorter pieces – articles, features, essays, interviews – most lay forgotten, unseen by modern readers. Some are now gathered in the present volume. Stoker sheds light on the workings of the theatre, on his admiration for the United States, and reveals much about himself in his interviews with the great and the good, from Winston Churchill to Arthur Conan Doyle.

A Glimpse of America - and other Lectures, Interviews and Essays

Dalby, Richard

To see our full range of Dracula studies, go to "Kindle Store" and search for DESERT ISLAND DRACULA LIBRARY.The resonant and awesome figure of Count Dracula. his Transylvanian lair, and his powers of supernatural evil, have imprinted themselves on the popular imagination, largely through the medium of the cinema. And yet, until now, no one has undertaken a detailed analysis of the source of our preconceptions about the greatest vampire of them all - "Dracula", by Bram Stoker, first published in 1897.This is the first in-depth critical study of Stoker's many-faceted novel, which has some claim to be one of the most influential books, at the level of popular culture, of the last hundred years.Dr Leatherdale begins by considering the folkloric and historical background of the novel and describes the development of the vampire legend in Europe and the life of the historical Dracula - the infamous Vlad the Impaler. He also provides a biographical account of Stoker himself and discusses the genesis of his most famous book.The main part of the study offers five interpretative perspectives, beginning with the pervasive and powerful sexual symbolism of the novel. Stoker's text is then analysed in terms of its Freudian overtones, its religious themes, its relationship to occult and literary myths, and its significance as a political and social allegory.For the student and general reader alike this is the ideal companion to what the authur argues is the cultural myth of the twentieth century.Reviews:"Leatherdale is thorough on picking up Dracula's many sexual symbols and echoes." (Times Literary Supplement)"This study should find itself on the shelves of all students of popular culture and literature." (British Book News)"The ever-intriguing, dark drama of Dracula never loses its hypnotic appeal under Leatherdale's direction." (Gothic)"Leatherdale's exegesis of the Dracula phenomenon is absorbing." (Folklore)

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King, Tom.

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