Dracula’s Guest

＂I felt a warm rasping at my throat, then came a consciousness of the awful truth, which chilled me to the heart and sent the blood surging up through my brain.＂

In this intriguing literary fragment--published seventeen years after Bram Stoker’s most famous novel--an English visitor to southern Germany suffers a terrifying ordeal on Walpurgis Nacht: the night when, according to local tradition, supernatural horrors are set free to walk the earth. But perhaps most chilling of all is the appearance of a mysterious telegram purporting to guarantee the Englishman’s safety, a telegram sent by a certain ’Dracula’...

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Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was the author of the enormously influential 1897 novel Dracula. Among his other works of fiction are The Mystery of the Sea and The Lady of the Shroud.