Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

Front cover of the first edition
Author	Bram Stoker
Cover artist	Handforth
Genre	Short stories, horror fiction
Publisher	George Routledge and Sons
Publication date	1914
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	200
OCLC	3952965
LC Class	PZ3.S8743 Dr14 PR6037.T617 (Arrow Books, 1974) [1]

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death, at the behest of his widow Florence Balcombe. ^[2]

The same collection has been issued under short titles including simply Dracula's Guest. Meanwhile, collections published under longer titles contain different selections of stories.

Contents of the collection

Title	Date of first publication	Location of first publication [3]
"Dracula's Guest"	1914	Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
"The Judge's House"	5 December 1891	Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
"The Squaw"	1 December 1893	Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
"The Secret of the Growing Gold"	23 January 1892	Black and White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review
"A Gipsy Prophecy"	1914	Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
"The Coming of Abel Behenna"	1914	Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
"The Burial of the Rats"	26 January 1896	Lloyd’s Weekly News
"A Dream of Red Hands"	11 July 1894	The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality
"Crooken Sands"	December 1894	Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Adaptations

• "The Burial of the Rats" was adapted in 1995 as a movie called Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats by Roger Corman's film company^{[ citation needed ]} and as a comic book by Jerry Prosser and Francisco Solano Lopez.^{[ citation needed ]}
• "The Squaw" was adapted for comics by Archie Goodwin (script) and Reed Crandall (art) for Creepy magazine no.13.
• "Dracula's Guest" was adapted for comics by E. Nelson Bridwell (script) and Frank Bolle (art) for Eerie magazine no.16.

Notes

1. "Dracula's guest" (Arrow Books, 1974). LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-09-23.
2. "'Missing person' Florence Stoker added to DIB" Royal Irish Academy, 2020-01-06. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
3. von Ruff, Al. "The Internet Speculative Fiction Database". Newsarama.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.

References

• Klinger, Leslie S. (2008) The New Annotated Dracula. W.W. Norton & Co.. ISBN   0-393-06450-6.
• Skal, David J. (1993). The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror. Penguin Books. ISBN   0-14-024002-0.

External links

• The full text of Dracula's Guest at Wikisource
• The full text of The Judge's House at Wikisource
• The full text of The Burial of the Rats at Wikisource
• The full text of A Dream of Red Hands at Wikisource
• The full text of The Coming of Abel Behenna at Wikisource
• The full text of Crooken Sands at Wikisource
• Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories at Project Gutenberg
• Bram Stoker Online – Full text and PDF versions of the entire collection.
• Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales public domain audiobook at LibriVox