Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to finalize a property deal for the mysterious Count Dracula, he stumbles upon an ancient evil he is unprepared to face. When that evil escapes to England, the entire nation is suddenly under threat and only an aged vampire hunter, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, can put a stop to the bloodshed. Sensual, dark and thrilling, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" remains the seminal work of Gothic fiction, and in this elegant "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition, which includes an ... |
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"There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion." Thus Bram Stoker, one of ... |
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Based on the story of Bram Stoker. Retold by Diane Mowat. ... In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula - a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead - a vampire that drinks the blood of living people... Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for ... |
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Лейди Одри Роуз Уадсуърт направи невъзможното - разкри самоличността на чудовищния Джак Изкормвача. Истината обаче е толкова ужасяваща, че младата дама няма друг избор, освен да запази тайната за себе си и да напусне Лондон. Пътят ѝ я отвежда до Румъния - където се помещава едно от най-добрите училища за съдебна медицина, в което освен това приемат жени. Но мечтаното образование трябва да почака. Поредица от жестоки убийства заплашват да хвърлят страната в хаос, а местните мълвят със страх легендата за Дракула. Дали духът на кръвожадния владетел не се е завърнал? Или някой просто не се възползва от суеверията, за ... |
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Потопете се в света на граф Дракула, както никога досега с новата неадаптирана версия на книгата на Брам Стокър. Лусозната книга съдържа цялото произведение - без пропуски, без добавени сцени, без преиначени изрази и думи. Включените бележки към него поясняват непознатото за съвременния читател, тълкуват замислите на автора и препращат към мненията на изтъкнати специалисти. Добавени са две приложения: "Гостът на Дракула" - публикуваната посмъртно като отделен разказ първа глава от оригиналния ръкопис на книгата, и интервю с автора, взето през 1897 г., които допълват разбирането на читателя за Брам Стокър, за ... |
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Tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and others. Introduction by Mike Ashley. ... Fans of horror and the supernatural will savor the dark delicacies in this spine-tingling anthology of the genre's very best. Featuring an international gallery of the world's great horror writers, this collection celebrates one of literature's most popular forms of fiction with 14 masterfully crafted tales of terror. "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." H. P. Lovecraft ... |
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If a novel is long and torrid love affair, full of ups and downs and highs and lows, then a short story is just a quick kiss from a stranger in the dark - a fleeting, but intense experience that grips the heart, fires up the blood and lingers in the memory. This collection of darkly disturbing tales will suck you into the weird and wonderful world of the author's imagination, populated by vengeful witches, ravenous zombies, serial killers, alien monsters, bloodthirsty androids and even a man who feeds on dreams. Emil Minchev is born in 1984 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and has published six novels and a short story ... |
