Bram Stoker
1) Dracula
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First published in 1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker has become the standard against which all other vampire stories are compare and the inspiration for countless film and stage adaptations. Indeed, the name "Dracula" has been synonymous with the Undead for at least a century, and the original novels till has the power to chill. Come then to Castle Dracula, hidden in the forbidding peaks of the Carpathian Mountains, where an undying creature of evil casts...
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"A mysterious attack on Margaret Trelawny's father brings young lawyer Malcolm Ross into the eminent Egyptologist's home; amid mummies and Oriental relics, ancient forces greater than they previously could have imagined are stirring. The Egyptian Queen Tera has been awakened, and is coming to take what she believes to be hers - whatever the cost to the Trelawny family. Set in London, Cornwall and Egypt, and written at a time when a fascination with...
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Bram Stoker is a leading figure of gothic literature, having not only written 'Dracula', but also other groundbreaking horror stories, featuring Egyptian Mummies, grisly monsters and haunting encounters. This enormous eBook offers readers the unique opportunity of exploring the prolific writer's work in a manner never before possible. This is the complete FICTIONAL works of Bram Stoker, with many bonus texts for gothic lovers to explore. (Current
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This collection of five spooky stories will give even the bravest listeners goosebumps! Gather 'round and enjoy these delightfully chilling tales full of monsters and mysteries, perfect for passing on around campfires for generations to come. Includes Dracula's Secret, How He Left the Hotel, The Banshee and O'Doud, The Ship Wreckers' Daughter, and The Monkey's Paw.
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Immobilienmakler Jonathan Harker, geschäftlich unterwegs in Transsylvanien, folgt der Einladung des Grafen Dracula. Bereits kurz nach der Ankunft auf dem Schloss entdeckt er, wer sein Gastgeber wirklich ist: Dracula, der Fürst der Vampire. Dracula überlistet Jonathan und reist blutdürstend nach London ...
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Here you will find the following works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Austen, Jane: "Northanger Abbey"
Benson, E. F.: "Caterpillars"
Bierce, Ambrose: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Blackwood, Algernon: "The Listener"
Blackwood, Algernon: "The Willows"
Brontë, Charlotte: "Jane Eyre"
Brontë, Charlotte: "Villette"
Brontë, Emily: "Wuthering Heights"
Chambers, Robert W.: "The Repairer of Reputations"
Collins, Wilkie: "The Woman...
8) Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils...
10) Dracula
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Great illustrated classics volume G224-51
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After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
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Jonathan Harker is a young lawyer who is assigned to a gloomy village just outside of Transylvania. He is forced to stay at the castle of the undead vampire Dracula and imprisoned by his minons. Dracula travels to London after being inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. Once Dracula lands in England, his reign of seduction and terror begins. He drains the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends, including...
13) Nosferatu
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A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
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Classic haunted house ghost stories curated by world-renowned filmmaker and horror genre expert John Landis. This beautifully presented, highly collectible anthology features ghost stories that have enthralled, terrified and inspired readers decade after decade. Some are relatively well known; others are long-lost treasures, awaiting rediscovery. The selection includes tales of terror by Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, and Percival Landon; studies of...
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Dracula, a centuries-old nobleman damned to an eternal blood-crazed half-life, travels from his native Transylvania to London and to a savage fate. In the decadent nightlife he finds new victims. He also finds Dr. Van Helsing, a brilliant scientist, who becomes Dracula's implacable foe in a bat-and-mouse game of blood-red Gothic gore.
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The iconic Gothic horror classics that gave birth to the monstrous myths that still inhabit our nightmares. Tragic heroines, windswept moors, dark and stormy nights, castle prisons, and forbidden desires realized at the greatest cost—these are the elements of Gothic horror, given its finest expression in these five enduring novels. Frankenstein: Obsessed with the secret of creation, Swiss scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein cobbles together a body...
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This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Emma
Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis: Alice's...
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This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat
Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James: Ulysses
Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim
La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons
Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow
Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a...
