A DYING MAN'S GREATEST TREASURE... Mortimer Moorecook, retired Wall Street raider, avid collector, is losing his fight against cancer. With weeks to live, a package arrives at the door of his hillside mansion--an artifact he paid millions for...a hominoid skull with elongated teeth, discovered in a
Dracul
โ Scribed by Dacre Stoker; JD Barker
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Year
- 2018;2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 584 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The prequel to Dracula , inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's--and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them.
It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles the events that led him here ...
A sickly child, Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents' Dublin home, tended to by his caretaker, a young woman named Ellen Crone. When a string of strange deaths occur in a nearby town, Bram and his sister Matilda detect a pattern of bizarre behavior by Ellen--a mystery that deepens chillingly until Ellen vanishes suddenly from their lives. Years later, Matilda returns from...
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
This book is about the Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose noctural atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror.
When solicitor's clerk Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania on business to meet a mysterious Romanian count named Dracula|he little expects the horrors this strange meeting will unleash. Thus Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of blood and passion begins|rapidly accelerating from Harker's nightmarish exper
The vampire count of Transylvania seeks his lost love and the conquest of Britain by plague. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola." ### Amazon.com Review *Dracula* is one of the few horror books to be honored by inclusion in the Norton Critical Edition series. (The others are *Frankenstein,* *The
Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's **Dracula** received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: 'It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's *Frankenstein* or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terr