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Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

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Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Front cover of the first edition
AuthorBram Stoker
Cover artistHandforth
GenreShort stories, horror fiction
PublisherGeorge Routledge and Sons
Publication date
1914
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages200
OCLC3952965
LC ClassPZ3.S8743 Dr14 PR6037.T617 (Arrow Books, 1974)[1]

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death, at the behest of his widow Florence Balcombe.[2]

The same collection has been issued under short titles including simply Dracula's Guest. Meanwhile, collections published under longer titles contain different selections of stories.

Contents of the collection

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Title Date of first publication Location of first publication[3]
"Dracula's Guest" 1914 Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
"The Judge's House" 5 December 1891 Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
"The Squaw" 1 December 1893 Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
"The Secret of the Growing Gold" 23 January 1892 Black and White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review
"A Gipsy Prophecy" 1914 Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
"The Coming of Abel Behenna" 1914 Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
"The Burial of the Rats" 26 January 1896 Lloyd’s Weekly News
"A Dream of Red Hands" 11 July 1894 The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality
"Crooken Sands" December 1894 Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Adaptations

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Dracula's guest" (Arrow Books, 1974). LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  2. ^ "'Missing person' Florence Stoker added to DIB" Royal Irish Academy, 2020-01-06. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  3. ^ von Ruff, Al. "The Internet Speculative Fiction Database". Newsarama.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.

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