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Title: Dracula's Guest

Author: Bram Stoker

Release Date: November 20, 2003 [eBook #10150]
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Language: English

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DRACULA'S GUEST

by

BRAM STOKER

First published 1914

To

MY SON

CONTENTS

Dracula's Guest 9
The Judge's House 26
The Squaw 50
The Secret of the Growing Gold 67
The Gipsy Prophecy 84
The Coming of Abel Behenna 96
The Burial of the Rats 120
A Dream of Red Hands 152
Crooken Sands 165

PREFACE

A few months before the lamented death of my husband--I might say even
as the shadow of death was over him--he planned three series of short
stories for publication, and the present volume is one of them. To his
original list of stories in this book, I have added an hitherto
unpublished episode from _Dracula_. It was originally excised owing to
the length of the book, and may prove of interest to the many readers
of what is considered my husband's most remarkable work. The other
stories have already been published in English and American
periodicals. Had my husband lived longer, he might have seen fit to
revise this wor