Dracula's Guest

The work done on this book.

Finally, you can have an edition of Dracula, as close as possible to the first edition of 1897, with the original text, respecting the layout and the font. Even the book has the same number of pages. The binding has also been reproduced, based on original covers, scanned at the highest resolution, which are worn, just like the books that are on sale today, but with their price multiplied by thousands. This is the edition that was presented without advertisements.

What is different among other books.

Today you can find many reprints of Dracula, some with added text, some with pictures, but none of them have been reissued trying to keep the look of the original edition. To have an original edition is within the reach of very few.

What Dracula is about.

Dracula is a classic horror novel; perhaps the quintessential classic of the genre. In Bram Stoker's work, the figure of the vampire, inspired by popular belief, found its perfect form. The author incorporates elements of ancient legends and oral traditions into a fascinating gothic novel. With great skill, he places the vampire of seemingly bygone times in modern times. On the threshold of the 20th century, in an age characterised by scientific and technical progress, Stoker evokes the mysterious, supernatural and inexplicable evil. And although he does so in the format of romanticism, as a montage of diaries and letters, even today the reading of the book leaves us breathless. The gradual revelation of the undead is as thrillingly staged as their encirclement. Dracula is a kind of original text through which the vampire's triumphal march into cinema and popular culture could begin. The fact that Stoker alludes discreetly but overtly to the various possibilities of interpreting the vampire myth - among others, the social and the erotic - further contributes to the fascination of the legend. "Dracula's Guest" follows an Englishman (whose name is never mentioned, but is presumed to be Jonathan Harker) on a visit to Munich before leaving for Transylvania. It is Walpurgis Night, and in spite of the hotelier's warning to not return late, the young man later leaves his carriage and wanders toward the direction of an abandoned "unholy" village. As the carriage departs with the frightened and superstitious driver, a tall and thin stranger scares the horses at the crest of a hill. After a few hours, as he reaches a desolate valley, it begins to snow; as a dark storm gathers intensity, the Englishman takes shelter in a grove of cypress and yew trees. The Englishman's location is soon illuminated by moonlight to be a cemetery, and he finds himself before a marble tomb with a large iron stake driven through the roof, the inscription "Countess Dolingen of Gratz / in Styria / sought and found death / 1801". The Englishman is disturbed to be in such a place on such a night and as the storm breaks anew, he is forced by pelting hail to shelter in the doorway of the tomb. As he does so, the bronze door of the tomb opens under his weight and a flash of forked lightning shows the interior, revealing a "beautiful woman with rounded cheeks and red lips, seemingly sleeping on a bier". The force of the following thunder peal throws the Englishman from the doorway (experienced as "being grasped as by the hand of a giant") as another lightning bolt strikes the iron spike, destroying the tomb and the now screaming woman inside. The Englishman's troubles are not quite over, as he painfully regains his senses from the ordeal, he is repulsed by a feeling of loathing which he connects to a warm feeling in his chest and a licking at this throat. The Englishman summons courage to peek through his eyelashes and discovers a gigantic wolf with flaming eyes is attending him.