Dracula by Bram Stoker Hardback: Dracula Special Edition

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We currently deliver to UK destinations only, via 2nd class Royal Mail or Parcel Force 48 Hours service. Bram Stoker has written an excellent book, and if you’ve had enough of modern day vampires, do go back and give this one a try (or retry! In his heyday as Acting Manager for Sir Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre in the West End of London, Bram was a well-known figure in a golden age of British theatre. As the suave and chilling Count stalks his prey from a crumbling castle in the Carpathians to a lunatic asylum in Purfleet and the bedrooms of his swooning female victims, the drama builds to a fever pitch of sensuality and suspense.

I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. If a refund is payable to you we will process the refund as soon as possible, and, in any case within fourteen (14) days. The attempt at regional accents in some of the dialogue is distracting as is Van Helsing's habit of missing ’s’ off verbs. They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other, and the most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course there were petticoats under them.

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At first, the ending seemed a bit anticlimactic, but upon reflection, I felt like the whole adventurous lead-up was all part of the ending and it worked. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the ‘Master’ and his imminent arrival. Even after all these years, it remains a gripping and chilling tale that will haunt your thoughts long after you've closed the book.

Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, gothic fiction, and invasion literature. She smiled, and gave some message to an elderly man in white shirtsleeves, who had followed her to the door.He went on to act as as manager and secretary for the actor Sir Henry Irving, while writing his novels, the most famous of which is Dracula.

This is not intended to be a full statement of all your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client.

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