Dracula's Guest
by Bram Stoker 1847–1912
The book, and the century it came out of.
The chapter cut from Dracula and eight other tales, published by Stoker’s widow two years after his death: a traveller stranded on Walpurgis Night among the tombs, a house that takes its rent in visitors, a squaw and a cat. Whether the title story was ever really part of the novel is still argued; either way, it is the coldest thing he wrote. Illustrated with 60 full-page plates — paintings by Shishkin, Courbet and Stanisławski among them.
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.
Dracula's Guest, by Bram Stoker, complete and unabridged. Spelling and punctuation follow present-day American usage; the sentences, the paragraphs and the voice are the author’s, word for word.
It was written in another era and may carry attitudes a reader today will find dated. They are kept for the sake of the work and do not reflect the views of this house.
- Series
- Gothic & Horror
- Format
- Ebook
- Extent
- about 144 pages
- Reading time
- about 3 hours
- Illustrations
- Full-page plates, credited
- Text
- Complete, unabridged
- Language
- en
- This edition
- 2026
- ISBN
- 9785501001701
60 paintings are bound into this edition
Six of them are shown here, taken from the volume itself. Each is reproduced full page and named with its painter and year.
Published 1914, two years after Stoker died
His widow, Florence, put out the collection to raise money — Stoker had left her badly off — and the title story is generally taken to be a chapter cut from <em>Dracula</em> before publication.
She spent the following years pursuing the makers of an unauthorised German film of the novel through the courts, won, and had the prints ordered destroyed. Copies survived anyway.
This book in culture: one version
Most people meet a book like this one on a screen first. Here is what was made of it — and none of these is the book.
- 1982 Les Jeux de la comtesse Dolingen de Gratz Catherine Binet
A page from this edition
Not a mock-up: this page is taken from the finished volume. The ornament above the chapter belongs to its shelf and to no other, the opening letter is set as a drop capital, and the plate below carries the name of the painter and the year.
Both photographed from the finished volume.
Dracula's Guest, first published 1914, issued in this edition by Aeneas Press in 2026 on the Gothic & Horror shelf. Newly set, with the ornament of its series above each chapter and a drop capital on the opening page. Illustrated with full-page plates, each named with its painter.
Published as an ebook and not issued in print by this house; it carries one ISBN, 9785501001701, and is supplied worldwide. This edition — its setting, its ornament, its cover art, and the selection and attribution of its plates — © 2026 Aeneas Press.
Questions readers ask
- Is this the whole of Dracula's Guest?
- Yes — complete and unabridged. Nothing is cut, condensed or paraphrased. This is the book, not a summary of it.
- What exactly did you change?
- The spelling and the punctuation follow present-day American usage. Bram Stoker's sentences are untouched — same words, same order, same rhythm.
- Are the pictures really in the book?
- Yes. The edition carries full-page plates bound into the text, each one named with its painter and the year it was made. Six of them are shown on this page.
- How long is it?
- About 144 pages, which is roughly about 3 hours of reading.
- What do I actually get?
- An illustrated ebook with its own ISBN, sold worldwide. One file, yours to keep, readable on any device.
