Musaicum Press presents to you a collection of the greatest horror, supernatural and dark fantasy stories written by the Bram Stoker: Contents: Novels: Dracula The Snake's Pass The Watter's Mou' The Mystery of the Sea The Jewel of Seven Stars The Man (The Gates of Life) The Lady of the Shroud The Lair of the White Worm (The Garden of Evil) Short Stories: Under the Sunset The Rose Prince The Invisible Giant The Shadow Builder How 7 Went Mad Lies and Lilies The...
This eBook edition of «The Snake's Pass» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The novel's main protagonist, Arthur Severn, has the desire to improve his Irish knowledge, thus he makes a detour to West Ireland and visits the local pub. The townspeople in the bar begin to tell Arthur the legendary story of Shleenanaher, how Saint Patrick defeated the King of the Snakes in Ireland. He then learns the story of the evil villain of...
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The subject of imposture is always an interesting one, and impostors in one shape or another are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is, and society shows itself ready to be gulled. The histories of famous cases of imposture in this book have been grouped together to show that the art has been practised in many forms – impersonators, pretenders, swindlers, and...
"Famous Impostors" is the fourth and final book of nonfiction by Bram Stoker, published in 1910. It is a book that deals with exposing various impostors and hoaxes. Contents: Pretenders Perkin Warbeck The Hidden King Stephan Mali The False Dauphins Princess Olive Practitioners of Magic Paracelsus Cagliostro Mesmer The Wandering Jew John Law Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Witches Doctor Dee La Voisin Sir Edward Kelley Mother Damnable Matthew Hopkins Arthur Orton (Tichborne...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of classic vampire books:<br><br>The Vampyre, a Tale, John Polidori <br>Carmilla, J. Sheridan LeFanu <br>Dracula, Bram Stoker <br>Dracula's Guest, Bram Stoker <br>The House of the Vampire, George Sylvester Viereck <br>Varney the Vampire, Thomas Preskett Prest
"Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories" is a collection of short stories that includes «Dracula's Guest,» «The Judge's House,» «The Squaw,» «The Secret of the Growing Gold,» «A Gipsy Prophecy,» «The Coming of Abel Behenna,» «The Burial of the Rats,» «A Dream of Red Hands,» and «Crooken Hands.» Among the most captivating of these tales is «Dracula's Guest,» which is widely believed to be the first chapter of Stoker's original «Dracula» manuscript. A young...
When Old Hoggen disappeared, everyone in Charmouth suspected foul play. Hoggen had been rich, powerful – and not well liked. Suspicions fall on summer vacationers…and in particularly newcomers Augustus, his wife, mother-in-law, and Cousin Jemima (who bears a striking resemblance to the missing man). When Augustus actually finds the Old Hoggen's body washed ashore in a storm, events take a decidedly sinister turn. <P> A strikingly good, exceedingly rare mystery from the author of...
"The Bram Stoker Megapack" assembles 22 classic works by the author of «Dracula,» including all of his classic horror novels and a selection of rare and famous stories. Of special interest is the mystery story «Old Hoggen,» which has never before appeared in a complete, corrected text until this time (we transcribed it from the 1893 newspaper publication especially for this volume) – and it's worth the price of this volume by itself! In all, «The Bram Stoker Megapack» collects more...
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Archibald Hunter is a young Englishman who decides to move to Cruden Bay, a small Scottish Village after he experienced a strange psychic vision. He gets into possession of a certain trunk with ciphered letters from 16th century. While near the seashore, Archibald rescues from the ocean a beautiful American woman named Marjory, and she later helps him decode the cipher. From the letters...
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Rupert Saint Leger inherits his uncle's estate worth more than one million pounds, on condition that he live for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains on the Dalmatian coast. One wet night, he is visited in his room in the castle by a pale woman wearing a wet shroud, seeking warmth. He lets her dry herself before his fire, and she flees before morning....
This eBook edition of «The Lair of the White Worm» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Adam Salton, originally from Australia, is contacted by his great-uncle, Richard Salton, in Derbyshire for the purpose of establishing a relationship between these last two members of the family. His great-uncle wants to make Adam his heir. Adam travels to Richard Salton's house in Mercia, Lesser Hill, and quickly finds himself at the center of...