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Dracula's Guest
Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories | Michael Sims
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Before Twilight and True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula. Michael Sims brings together the very best vampire stories of the Victorian era-from England, America, France, Germany, Transylvania, and even Japan-into a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oval Portrait" and Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" to Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla" and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne." Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and rounds out the collection with Stoker's own "Dracula's Guest"-a chapter omitted from his landmark novel. Vampires captivated the Victorians, as Sims reveals in his insightful introduction: In 1867, Karl Marx described capitalism as "dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor"; while in 1888 a London newspaper invoked vampires in trying to explain Jack the Ripper's predations. At a time when vampires have been re-created in a modern context, Dracula's Guest will remind readers young, old, and in between of why the undead won't let go of our imagination. Readers of Dracula's Guest may also enjoy Michael Sims' most recent collection, The Dead Witness: A Connossieur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories.
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WildQuibble
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Curling up with a blanket and a book. #teamstoker #scarathlon

Running total including this post: 37

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BeansPage I have you down for 40 points sweetheart. Did you forget the comments you've made on some of the posts for extra points? 🧟‍♀️ 5y
WildQuibble @TheReadingMermaid I‘m not sure which comments count? 5y
BeansPage Anything that says 🌟1pt for each comment you make🌟 gives you an extra point per comment 😉 5y
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WildQuibble @TheReadingMermaid I don‘t think I‘ve commented on any of those yet, so I don‘t know where it‘s gone astray. Do we count scavenger hunt items? (I didn‘t think we got points for those or tv shows, but I‘ve seen a couple of posts with people adding them) 5y
BeansPage No we do not count TV shows and the scavenger hunt does not have a point system. if you are watching a TV show you can post it and get one point for participation. Maybe that's what you've seen people posting. 5y
BeansPage Let me stalk you for a minute and go through your points again.... 5y
BeansPage ..... 😐 I just counted through all of your posts and yes you have 37 points for the posts. Let me make sure you haven't commented on anything.... 5y
BeansPage WTF???? I think I'm going nuts girl! Okay so you owe me three points. Easy peasy 1 2 3 z! 😘😘😘 5y
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WildQuibble
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Themed bookmark at the ready, time to read.

#scarathlon #teamstoker

BeansPage OMG I love that so much. That made me giggle 🤭 🧟‍♀️ 5y
Clwojick Love your bookmark! 🙈🙈🙈🙈 5y
WildQuibble @TheReadingMermaid I had to have it 😄 5y
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eri.reads
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Pickpick

A mash up of Victorian era vampire stories along with background of the authors. some of the stories were creepy and some were just okay to me. I'll probably try a reread at some point because I couldn't give my full attention for some reason. 3.5/5 ⭐

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eri.reads
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Starting the tagged book and I'm finding parts of just the Introduction hilarious! 🤣🤣

#vampirehalitosis #victorianvampires

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FantasyChick
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Love this #BookishWouldYouRather!!!!

1. Dracula. You just know he has some great dinner conversation
2. Both would drive me nuts, but I think I can get over a torn page easier
3. Visually
4. Dog Ear. It really doesn't bother me.
5. Serial Killers!!!!! Any day!

@Kalalalatja

Kalalalatja I'm betting Dracula would have some stories to tell! 7y
FantasyChick @Kalalalatja For sure! Definitely better ones than Frankenstein's Monster I think 😉 7y
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Kitsune816
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It's been a while since I've read this, but from what I remember most of the stories were creepy and not necessarily scary to me. May need to try and fit a reread in by the end of the month... #AllHallowsRead #notscary @Litsy

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Mimi28
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I figured this would be a great October read. Check out the cool book marks I found while I was going through my bins! The Sheldon one is my favorite! 🤓🤓❤️😎😊👍📚🎃

LauraBeth ❤️Sheldon 8y
Mimi28 @LauraBeth I don't know if you can see, but Sheldon is saying "that's my spot!" And he is pointing, lol 8y
LauraBeth 😂😂😂 I wish Sheldon was my neighbor 8y
Mimi28 @LauraBeth Aimee is a lucky woman, lol 8y
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Texreader
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My very eclectic but small book haul today. Huge fan of Bram Stoker so I am looking forward to the pre-Stoker stories.

Suzze I collect copies of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. My all time favorite book. 8y
Texreader I got it because of reviews here on Litsy. I look forward to reading it. @Suzze That is so cool!! 8y
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