Dracula's Guest - Nine Tales with the Chapter Cut from Dracula

Bram Stoker

Summary

The chapter cut from Dracula before publication, with eight further tales collected by Stoker's widow two years after his death. A traveller ignores his coachman and spends Walpurgis Night in a Bavarian churchyard; a judge's chamber turns out to have a use for its bell-rope; an Englishman in a Paris rubbish-yard is hunted by its rag-pickers and its rats. Paintings of moonlit graveyards, Carpathian forest and Victorian dread. The Gilded Library decoration is bats in flight, a grave slab and a wolf's head.

Available since: 08/19/2026.

Print length: 169 pages.

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