Jonathan Harker is travelling to Castle Dracula to see the Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. He is begged by locals not to go there, because on the eve of St George's Day, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will come full sway. But business must be done, so Jonathan makes his way to the Castle - and then his nightmare begins. His beloved wife Mina and other lost souls have fallen under the Count's horrifying spell. Dracula must be destroyed . . .

Dracula

This carefully crafted ebook: "Famous Imposters (Pretenders & Hoaxes including Queen Elizabeth and many more revealed by Bram Stoker)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Famous Impostors is the fourth and final book of nonfiction by Bram Stoker, published in 1910. It is a book that deals with exposing various impostors and hoaxes.
Table of Contents :
Preface
Pretenders
Perkin Warbeck
The Hidden King
"Stefan Mali" The False Czar
The False Dauphins
Princess Olive
Practitioners of Magic:
Paracelsus
Cagliostro
Mesmer
The Wandering Jew
John Law
Witchcraft and Clairvoyance:
The Period
Doctor Dee
La Voisin
Sir Edward Kelley
Mother Damnable
Matthew Hopkins
Arthur Orton
Women as men:
The Motive for Disguise
Hannah Snell.
La Maupin.
Mary East
Hoaxes, Etc.:
Two London Hoaxes
The Cat Hoax
The Military Review
The Toll-Gate
The Marriage Hoax
Buried Treasure
Dean Swift's Hoax
Hoaxed Burglars
Bogus Sausages
The Moon Hoax
The Chevalier D'eon
The Bisley Boy
Prolegomenon
The Queen's Secret
Bisley
The Tradition
The Difficulty of Proof
The Time and the Opportunity
The Identity of Elizabeth
The Solution
Index
Abraham "Bram" Stoker ( 1847 -  1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.

Famous Imposters (Pretenders & Hoaxes including Queen Elizabeth and many more revealed by Bram Stoker)

It all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a fresh step in the logic of things, but as something expected. It is in such a wise that memory plays its pranks for good or ill; for pleasure or pain; for weal or woe. It is thus that life is bittersweet, and that which has been done becomes eternal.

The Jewel of Seven Stars

When Roger Melton passes away, he unexpectedly leaves a substantial fortune to his nephew, Rupert Sent Leger. But Rupert must fulfill one condition if he is to inherit: he must live in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains for one year. It is here, at Castle Vissarion, that Rupert encounters a mysterious woman cloaked in a wet shroud who is seeking refuge in the middle of the night. Rupert helps the beautiful woman, but she disappears before he can learn much about her. Discovering the identity of this ethereal creature will change Rupert's life forever. Presented as a series of letters and diary entries, The Lady of the Shroud was written in much the same fashion as author Bram Stoker's more famous novel, Dracula, and represents Stoker's unique and haunting writing style. Due to its unexpected storyline, The Lady of the Shroud has become a favorite within the gothic and horror genre first popularized at the turn of the twentieth century. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Lady Of The Shroud

Des romans, nouvelles et textes inédits qui éclairent l'œuvre d'un premier grand maître de la littérature fantastique. Les légendes celtiques qui ont bercé son enfance, les bouleversements apportés par la Révolution industrielle et les découvertes scientifiques, la vogue en cette fin du XIXe du spiritisme et des interrogations sur le psychisme humain, tout ce matériau nourrit l'imagination féconde de Bram Stoker, mise au service d'un formidable talent de paysagiste et de conteur. Romans : Dracula (1897) est un chef-d'œuvre dont chacun connaît la trame. Avec ce roman, Stoker a donné naissance à un mythe moderne qui dépassera son auteur. Le Repaire du ver blanc (1911, Christian Bourgois, 1970 puis NéO, 1986) voit resurgir un monstre antédiluvien, un grand serpent souterrain. Le Joyau des sept étoiles (1903, NéO, 1982), où il est question de la résurrection d'une reine antique, appartient à la tradition de fantastique populaire égyptien dont She, de H. Rider Haggard (1887) est un des fleurons. La Dame au linceul (1909, Actes Sud, 1996), bâti comme Dracula sous forme de lettres et de journaux intimes, montre un Anglais, installé dans un pays d'Europe centrale, tombant amoureux d'une apparition dont il ne sait s'il s'agit d'un vampire ou d'une jeune femme.28 Contes et nouvelles : Outre Au-delà du crépuscule (1882), recueil de contes merveilleux et fantastiques écrit pour son fils (José Corti, 1998), cette édition propose des nouvelles parues çà et là en France, ainsi que des inédits, une filmographie et une bibliographie.

Dracula et autres chefs-d'oeuvre

Presents the tale of a bizarre Carpathian count who drinks human blood to stay alive, and the Englishman who knows his secret.

Jonathan Harker, jeune notaire, est envoyé en Transylvanie pour rencontrer un client, le comte Dracula, nouveau propriétaire d’un domaine à Londres. à son arrivée, il découvre un pays mystérieux et menaçant, dont les habitants se signent au nom de Dracula. Malgré la bienveillance de son hôte, le jeune clerc ne peut qu’éprouver une angoisse grandissante. Très vite, il se rend à la terrifiante évidence : il est prisonnier d’un homme qui n’est pas un homme. Et qui partira bientôt hanter les nuits de Londres... Grand classique de la littérature de vampires, best-seller de tous les temps après la Bible, Dracula est une source d’inspiration inépuisable. En exclusivité : un extrait de Dracula l’Immortel, suite de Dracula, d’après les notes originales de Bram Stoker.

"I would rather be an angel than God!"

The voice of the speaker sounded clearly through the hawthorn tree. The young man and the young girl who sat together on the low tombstone looked at each other. They had heard the voices of the two children talking, but had not noticed what they said; it was the sentiment, not the sound, which roused their attention.

The girl put her finger to her lips to impress silence, and the man nodded; they sat as still as mice whilst the two children went on talking.

The scene would have gladdened a painter's heart. An old churchyard. The church low and square-towered, with long mullioned windows, the yellow-grey stone roughened by age and tender-hued with lichens. Round it clustered many tombstones tilted in all directions. Behind the church a line of gnarled and twisted yews.

The churchyard was full of fine trees. On one side a magnificent cedar; on the other a great copper beech. Here and there among the tombs and headstones many beautiful blossoming trees rose from the long green grass. The laburnum glowed in the June afternoon sunlight; the lilac, the hawthorn and the clustering meadowsweet which fringed the edge of the lazy stream mingled their heavy sweetness in sleepy fragrance. The yellow-grey crumbling walls were green in places with wrinkled harts-tongues, and were topped with sweet-williams and spreading house-leek and stone-crop and wild-flowers whose delicious sweetness made for the drowsy repose of perfect summer.

Dracula

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