title: Dracula: The Definitive Edition
author:  Bram Stoker 
description: DRACULA Jonathan Harker, a solicitor's clerk from London, travels to Transylvania to settle some business with the mysterious Count Dracula. In England, Harker's fiance, Mina, receives a visit from the count, as does her friend Lucy. Harker returns from his traumatic journey and joins Dr. Van Helsing on a \"vampire hunt\" in an attempt to rescue his beloved Mina. Dracula. By day he sleeps in a tomb beneath his desolate castle. By night he stalks the countryside, driven by a supernatural and deadly hunger. His quiet smile hides razor sharp fangs. His seemingly delicate, white hands are in fact coarse and broad. His touch yields an uncontrollable shudder. His sustenance is the life-blood of others. His victims become helpless under his hypnotic spell. There is no escape from this evil being who inhabits the shadows of the dark and dismal night. This unique edition features illustrations fro the macabre yet whimsical mind of Edward Gorey (1925-2000). In addition to an authoritative text of the novel, it offers the book's famous \"lost\" chapter- \"Dracula's Guest\" - as well as compelling biographical and critical essays by accomplished editor and horror author Marvin Kaye, detailing the creation of Dracula and the life of Stoker. This hand some two-color edition is a must-read for gore and Gorey fans alike.
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  # DRACULA'S GUEST
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Bram Stoker
  
  
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  Dracula's Guest
  
  
  The Judge's House
  
  
  The Squaw
  
  
  The Secret of the Growing Gold
  
  
  The Gipsy Prophecy
  
  
  The Coming of Abel Behenna
  
  
  The Burial of the Rats
  
  
  A Dream of Red Hands
  
  
  Crooken Sands
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Dracula's Guest
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  NOTE: DRACULA'S GUEST was excised from the original DRACULA
  
  
  MSS by his publisher because of the length of the orig-
  
  
  inal book MSS. It was published as a short story in
  
  
  1914, two years after Stoker's death. Enjoy!
  
  
  
  
  
  When we started for our drive the sun was shining brightly on
  
  
  Munich, and the air was full of the joyousness of early summer.
  
  
  Just as we were about to depart, Herr Delbruck (the maitre d'hotel
  
  
  of the Quatre Saisons, where I was staying) came down bareheaded to
  
  
  the carriage and, after wishing me a pleasant drive, said to the
  
  
  coachman, still holding his hand