Bram Stoker
81) The Crystal Cup
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The crystal cup reveals the struggle a young artist faces when he is taken from his family and forced to work for the king. He is promised freedom in return for his hard work to make the perfect crystal vase. The story takes a tragic twist when he dies immediately following his completion of the vase. The king jeopardizes his reign after displaying the artist's remains alongside the vase during a feast at the castle.
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An old poet finds himself separated by many miles from his dying wife and is reflecting over their life together in his sadness and misery. Theirs was a story of two people from different stations of life - he, poor and she, rich. He worked hard to make a name for himself and, having done so, he returns to her to find out that she had loved him all these years and was waiting for him, as well. The poet is so distraught that with it having taken so...
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The Watter's Mou', meaning "the water's mouth," revolves around the romance between a young coast guard officer and his girlfriend, the daughter of a fisherman. The officer, William Barrow [or Sailor Willy], is tasked with dealing with smuggling going on among the local fishermen, including his girlfriend's father. Maggie MacWhirter's father had fallen upon hard times, when once his fishing boat had brought him a prosperous living. When Maggie confesses...
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"El huésped de Drácula" de Bram Stoker es una novela corta que forma parte de una colección de relatos de terror. La colección incluye algunos episodios inéditos, como éste en cuestión que, por lo que se dice se corresponde con el primer capítulo de la mítica novela de Drácula, pero que su editor recortó por considerarla innecesaria para el conjunto.
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The 'Eroes of Thames tells the story of a famous swimmer, Peter Jimpson and his son, also named Peter, trying to maintain their fame in the big city of London. The father designed a skit in which his son would fake drowning in the Thames, and a random passerby (actually Peter himself) would dramatically rescue the boy. His plan is thwarted when a pair of grifters catch onto Peter's scheme and prevent him from following through with it as planned.
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Young Zaya was very sad and lonely when her mother died, but she eventually found solace in the company of birds, who proved to be her only friends. When Zaya sees the form of the Giant-Plague, she immediately tries to warn her the people in her city about what is coming, but almost everyone disregards her as crazy. The only who doesn't is a kind old man, Knoal, who believes Zaya and joins her cause of trying to warn about the Giant. Zaya's...
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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Bram Stoker ambienta su relato durante la vigilia de la Noche de Walpurgis, el momento en el que la superstición popular considera factible que brujas y muertos caminen juntos sobre la tierra. Un viajero inglés parte de Munich para adentrarse en carruaje hacia territorio desconocido donde pronto sentirá el terrible error cometido.
El Huésped de Drácula fue publicado en 1914, dos años después de la muerte de...
89) Chain Of Destiny
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While Frank is boarding at Mrs. Trevor's home, she decides to play matchmaker between him and another boarder, Diana Fothering. While Frank has not yet met the young lady, he is assured of her beauty by means of a painting in his room that she strongly resembles. Mysteriously, the painting has been a feature of Frank's nightmares while he has been staying in the room. He and Mrs. Trevor begin unraveling a bit of mystery concerning Diana and...
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A company of traveling actors gets snowbound during a storm while venturing to their next locale. In order to pass the time, the actors share stories with each other. The Manager begins with one about the time he spent in an unsavory saloon before his time with the company. Next, the Leading Lady shares a story about a certain play she worked on. The Wardrobe Mistress, a matronly woman not known among the company for speaking much, continues on with...
91) Bram Stoker
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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. La presente edición recoge dos relatos cortos de terror gótico del novelista y escritor irlandés Bram Stoker.
- "La Squaw" (1893) se desarrolla en Nuremberg donde el narrador y su esposa en su viaje de bodas conocen a Elías P Hutcheson un norteamericano con un carácter expresivo y altivo. Deciden visitar el castillo imperial y la terrorífica Torre de las Torturas. Una gata negra y su cachorro se cruzarán en...
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An ancient evil lurks in the dark heart of Transylvania - but it won't lurk there forever. Now Count Dracula's immortal eyes look towards London, a new land full of opportunity and unsuspecting victims. A ragged band of survivors must stop him before it is too late... but how?
Manga Classics® proudly presents a beautiful, faithful recreation of Bram Stoker's famous vampire story Dracula.
93) Count Dracula
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Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of...
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Classic Vampire tales read by Richard Pasco, whose expert reading ability is combined with a rich and sonorous voice, a former leading member of the Old Vic and The Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
The Mark Of The Beast by Rudyard Kipling
Aurelia by E.T.A. Hoffman
Mrs. Amworth by E.F. Benson
Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
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A selection of the most chilling tales ever written
Rats and mice, and beetles and creaky doors, and loose slates, and broken panes, and stiff drawer handles, that stay out when you pull them and then fall down in the middle of the night. […] Rats is bogeys, I tell you, and bogeys is rats, and don't you get to think anything else!
Ghosts, vampires, werewolves and even rats, all make an appearance in this collection of frighteningly good...
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Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of...
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Presented by actor author, Geoffrey Giuliano
Dracula is the now classic 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the fearsome Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasies. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led...
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A collection of classic horror stories, read by Patrick Malahide - a British actor, who has played many major film and television roles.
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The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
Timber by John Galsworthy
The Mask Of The Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Squaw by Bram Stoker
Martin's Close by M.R. James
The Man In The Bell by W.E. Aytoun
Caterpillars by E.F. Benson
A Tale Of Terror by Thomas Hood
100) Dracula
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Jonathan Harker, un jeune clerc de notaire londonien est invité à séjourner chez le comte Dracula pour régler quelques affaires mais dès son arrivée en Transylvanie, des signes inquiétants l'intrigue, les gens du coin tentent de le dissuader, le château est isolé et des phénomènes étranges se produisent. Le roman le plus érotique de la prude époque victorienne, il est devenu un grand classique et a inspiré nombres d'adaptations dont...
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