少尉军官于守业在解放前夕，被国民党特工科任命为潜伏在陆城的特务少将专员、特别行动组组长，代号037，他在陆城的公开身份是小学教师，由此037这一代号就像魔咒一样伴随着于守业，开始了他这一生都要注定为之付出代价并最终迷失了自我的灰色的双面人生……
初恋情人遥洁的过世，让夜不语的散心之旅变成伤心之旅，死因的背後存在著诸多难以理解的疑点，他决定找出真相，但是突然出现的神秘女孩却要求他放弃追查遥洁真正的死因，那个神秘的女孩又是谁？随著一场“降灵会”的展开，怪事层出不穷，死亡的人越来越多，诅咒弥漫整个小镇……这背后有什么东西在暗暗控制着？那神秘的女孩又是谁？夜不语惊奇地发现，事件的开关竟然起始于一场一百年前的悲剧……
大敌当前，一群抗日精英为何临阵哗变？沙场猛将，何以自甘清贫栖身敬老院？几位历史学博士迢迢万里，究竟意欲何为？神秘莫测的长晖山，笼罩着首领墓穴传说与国民党埋藏巨额财富之谜，虎啸狼奔，巨蟒野人，又为探险平添重重危机。拨开层层迷雾，还原历史真相，惊天宝藏另有诡异玄机。
26岁的社会学女硕士舒予寅正在写一篇关于哲学、宗教与巫术的论文，因邂逅的宅的主人——一个心事重重的亿万富翁，从而跟随他住进了他的岛上别墅。这是一座鬼魂出没的别墅，夜半的楼梯上有异样的脚步声；闲置的空房间里有女人的器声，男女主人公独特的情感经历，陷落在一连串悬念丛生的恐怖事件中。女主人公在荒岛上发现了人的头骨，在楼梯口撞上了上吊的女人，甚至有人的残肢出现在她的被祸里…… 此书在令人毛骨悚然的恐怖中，表现了人的命运和命运的突变，揭示了人的灵魂深处令人恐怖的心理元素，读来令人心悸的同时感受到心灵的震颤。
余以键从人们最熟悉的生活环境出发，用最普通的人和物演绎了震撼人心的恐怖；他用他那中国式的魔鬼手指塑造了无所不在的凶险，也拨动了中国读者的心。国内新恐怖小说的代表作家余以键在北京的读者见面会获得了巨大成功。当我们的生活突然被惊悚打断，我们或许应该记住一个名字：余以键，这个把恐怖和安全同时带给我们的人。
这是一个发生在医院里的恐怖故事，病人的神秘死亡，医生妻子的突然失踪，以及出现在夜半的哭声和时隐时现的白难黑衣女人，将医生、护士、病人及守护病人的亲属，守太平间的老人、警察等等都卷入其中，一连串神秘紧张，骇人听闻的事件，使他们在生死未卜的境遇中，穿越人性的邪恶与高尚，在价值与毁灭，爱与性，梦想与死亡等奇异经历中谛听到人性深处的呼喊……
从踏进丈夫何明的家门那天起，林红就似乎进入了一场噩梦之中：家里总是有着奇奇怪怪的响动、保姆养了一只怪异吓人的乌龟、而她和丈夫也是毫无缘由地萎靡不振。林红请来以前的男友调查，却陷入了更可怕的境地：她发现，自己过去的一个好友变成了乞丐，他的脑浆竟被吸食得一干二净……
这是一个残酷得令人颤栗的关于戏衣的故事。故事发生在二十一世纪北京的某个剧团里。按老辈戏人传下的规矩，凡动用故去名X的戏装，都要祭香火行礼告扰后才可以开箱取衣
苏州少女顾锦盒是个狂热的“张迷”，口头禅就是：怎么能见张爱玲一面呢？天才摄影师兼电脑专家沈曹对她一见钟情，并让她提前使用自己新发明尚未推广的“时间大神”
周自横对绣花女洛红尘一见钟情，并为此冷落了自己##三年的女友梅绮。经过了几起几落的大喜大悲之后，他们真正的血缘关系竟是舅舅与外甥女
不知经了多少年多少代，苏幕遮的转世苏幕是个不折不扣的倒霉鬼，做什么败什么；蛇人竹叶青的后人告诉他：除非能够让今世的雪冰蝉清楚地记起前世的一切，并真心宽恕，他的运气才可以好转
在某些阴暗的时刻，在某些静悄悄的夜晚，那位死去的##便幽幽地飘然而至……在神秘幽暗的氛围中，错综复杂的故事情节、扑朔迷离的现世人生、字里行间漫溢出的一缕缕浸着茶香的情丝
Three different times, a woman, a highly contemporary personal experience, almost brazenly outlines the concept of their own emotional ─ ─ grandmother said: the world of people, nothing more than clients and prostitutes; mother said: I have wanted to be a person a good wife, did not do, so do people of the world's mistress
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这是一个发生在古城墙上的人鬼相恋的故事。大明宫皇城根儿下的弃婴、现实生活中的我、一个与天地同在的唐朝武士远隔了千年的红尘与硝烟，他们挚诚相爱
她的爱因绝望而纯粹，因无奈而深刻，并在绝望和无奈中，把前因后果看得通透明白。丹冰可以为了他死一千次，而绝不对他表白一次。为了爱丹冰纵身一跃，命悬一线
一个让周杰伦歌迷人心惶惶的恐怖故事……暑假，登雪山归来的林布回到空落落的学校。而此时，宿舍中的物品，已经几乎全是遗物。同宿舍的另外三个女生，在这个暑假一个个先后死去。侥幸生还的林布，还没有意识到，随着夜晚的来临，骇人的恐怖，已经尾随着她回到了这座恍似空城的学校……每次那冥冥中若有若无的幽灵一般的歌声响起时，就会再次有人消失。而在此之前，究竟发生了什么！？
本书收集了周德东、庄秦、七根胡、快刀、沈醉天等十几位当红悬疑推理类作家的最新短篇杰作。以推理为主题，融合悬疑、惊悚等多种元素，分为冲动青春、惊悚空间、都市夜话、乡村魅影、禁忌地带等五个不同单元，立体多维的文本让你不知不觉地进入了作者精心设计的阅读陷阱——一扇扇未知之门背后是阵阵不可抵挡的感官震撼和渗入心头的惊惧
一次见面，却发现他神态异常，竟然以粉扑面，惶恐不安。随即，因为他提供的一张沾有墨渍的软盘，成康的电脑屏幕、办公室天花板等处竟然莫名出现同样的墨渍。无独有偶，同时有人开始向杂志社报料说见到会动的影子。成康开始调查时，温建国竟神秘失踪。
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一个神秘的盗宝世家的故事。古往今来，朝代更迭，王朝岌岌可危之际，无一不是将国中珍宝藏匿起来。盗宝世家后人，成为一名军人，奉命带领一支小分队去安徽九华山一带剿匪，在搜寻过程中，无意间进入一个山洞，不料竟是汉代王莽葬身藏宝之地
本书讲述的是一个个有关阴阳师的传说，也可以说是一个个窥探人心的故事，是安培晴明所经历过的十四件离奇之事，悬念迭生之余，留给我们更多的是有关人生死、爱恨、得失之间的种种回味与思考。
原著：安妮·赖斯(Anne Rice)[美]
出品：华纳兄弟影业公司 (Warner Bros.) 1994
导演：尼尔·乔丹(Neil Jordan)
主演：安东尼奥·班德拉斯 (Antonio Banderas)饰阿芒德
汤姆·克鲁斯(Tom Cruise)饰莱斯塔特
柯尔斯滕·邓斯特 (Kirsten Dunst)饰克萝迪娅
布拉德·皮特(Brad Pitt)饰路易斯
斯蒂芬·雷(Stephen Rea)
克里斯琴·斯莱特(Christian Slater)饰年轻记者
剧情介绍：
18世纪的路易斯安娜州。庄园主路易斯在丧妻失女后痛不欲生。他遇上了吸血鬼莱斯塔特，并被其施法术变成了一名吸血鬼。心地善良的路易斯不愿为了吸血而杀害人命，他靠吸动物的血维生。而莱斯塔特则一心要把路易斯教导成一个真正的吸血同类。
在新奥尔良，路易斯遇见了因瘟疫而失去亲人的小女孩克萝迪娅。路易斯终于禁不起诱惑吸了克萝迪娅的血，而莱斯塔特则不顾路易斯的反对把克萝迪娅也变成了吸血鬼。三个人在一起组成了一个奇特的家庭。
时光飞逝，几十年过去了。克萝迪娅开始怨恨莱斯塔特剥夺了他成长的权利。为了与路易斯一起离开莱斯塔特， 她诱骗莱斯塔特喝下了死人的血， 并将其刺杀后扔入沼泽。然而在路易斯和克萝迪娅正准备前往巴黎时，已是面目全非的莱斯塔特突然出现。搏斗中，路易斯抓起油灯掷向了莱斯塔特，火焰立刻将他吞没。在吞没半个城市的雄雄烈火中，路易斯与克萝迪娅登上了去巴黎的轮船。
两人在巴黎过着即象父女、又像情人的生活。他们还见到了同类：以阿芒德为首的聚居在剧院地下的一群吸血鬼。阿芒德给了路易斯许多教导。然而，在吸血鬼的世界中，谋害同类是唯一的犯罪。为此，路易斯和克萝迪娅之间出现了裂痕。 在克萝迪娅的要求下， 他把克萝迪娅也变成了吸血鬼，作为他离开克萝迪娅后的替代。然而， 吸血鬼圣地亚哥突然率众出现， 抓走了他们。路易斯被封入墙中，克萝迪娅和她的女伴则被暴露在阳光下处死。
路易斯被阿芒德所救，他发誓要进行报复。不久，他乘吸血鬼们沉睡时放火烧毁了它们的巢穴，杀死了圣地亚哥和众多的吸血鬼。他拒绝了阿芒德和他一起生活的要求，独自离开了巴黎。失去了克萝迪娅的路易斯倍受打击。他四处流浪，却始终无法抚平心中的创伤。19 88年，路易斯返回了新奥尔良， 见到了受伤虚弱、 独自隐居的莱斯塔特。路易斯向一个年轻记者马洛伊讲述了自己的经历，希望以此训鉴后人。不料马洛伊在听完之后却被深深地吸引，还执意要路易斯把他变成吸血鬼。路易斯厌恶地离开了他。失望的马洛伊独自驾车返家。然而，莱斯塔特却突然在车后座上出现。他吸了马洛伊的血，治愈了伤愈，带着马洛伊驾车驶向远方。一个新的吸血鬼故事，又将从此开始……
赏析
1975年，小说《造访吸血鬼》刚刚出版，其影片拍摄权就立即被人买走。然而直到1994 年，小说才终于被尼尔.乔丹搬上了银幕。这期间，足足经过了20年的时光和无数次的修改与完善。令制作者们心慰的是，影片一经推出，就引起了巨大的反响，可谓好评如潮，而导演尼尔.乔丹的才华和实力也得以再次充分展现，并从此广为人知。
《造访吸血鬼》是一部跨越时空，纵横想象的宏篇巨作。在影片中，导演以吸血鬼的世界这一独特的层面为出发点，将真、善、美与假、丑、恶进行了比较，并以此来影射当代社会中的许多潜在的危机和罪恶。导演在影片中牢牢地把握住了人性这一命题并加以阐发。因此，虽然近年来吸血鬼题材的影片屡见不鲜，这一部却显得分外与众不同，富有张力和动人的情感力量。演员阵容的强大也是这部影片的一大特色：布拉德·皮特、汤姆·克鲁斯、安东尼奥·班德拉斯，都是极富票房号召力的实力派偶像巨星。其演技自然也在影片中发挥得淋漓尽致，彼此之间毫不相让。一时间星光闪烁，几乎令人眼花缭乱。就连客串配角马洛伊的，也是颇有名气的实力派青年演员克里斯汀·史莱特。其演员阵容可谓空前强大，而几位演员之间的大较演技也使得影片大放光彩，令影迷大饱眼福。汤姆·克鲁斯在片中一改往日的好青年形象，饰演残暴的吸血鬼莱斯塔特；而安东尼奥·班德拉斯虽然是出演配角，其魅力却不输于主角人物，着实抢去了不少镜头；事业正处于迅猛上升之势的布拉德.皮特自然也不示弱，让影迷们再次见到了他的高超演技，并向观众展示了他无愧于主角位置的实力。几位影星的努力使影片获得了巨大的成功。而对于各位演员来说，这部影片也是他们巩固和发展在影坛中的地位的大好机会。
出品：华纳兄弟影业公司 (Warner Bros.) 1994
导演：尼尔·乔丹(Neil Jordan)
主演：安东尼奥·班德拉斯 (Antonio Banderas)饰阿芒德
汤姆·克鲁斯(Tom Cruise)饰莱斯塔特
柯尔斯滕·邓斯特 (Kirsten Dunst)饰克萝迪娅
布拉德·皮特(Brad Pitt)饰路易斯
斯蒂芬·雷(Stephen Rea)
克里斯琴·斯莱特(Christian Slater)饰年轻记者
剧情介绍：
18世纪的路易斯安娜州。庄园主路易斯在丧妻失女后痛不欲生。他遇上了吸血鬼莱斯塔特，并被其施法术变成了一名吸血鬼。心地善良的路易斯不愿为了吸血而杀害人命，他靠吸动物的血维生。而莱斯塔特则一心要把路易斯教导成一个真正的吸血同类。
在新奥尔良，路易斯遇见了因瘟疫而失去亲人的小女孩克萝迪娅。路易斯终于禁不起诱惑吸了克萝迪娅的血，而莱斯塔特则不顾路易斯的反对把克萝迪娅也变成了吸血鬼。三个人在一起组成了一个奇特的家庭。
时光飞逝，几十年过去了。克萝迪娅开始怨恨莱斯塔特剥夺了他成长的权利。为了与路易斯一起离开莱斯塔特， 她诱骗莱斯塔特喝下了死人的血， 并将其刺杀后扔入沼泽。然而在路易斯和克萝迪娅正准备前往巴黎时，已是面目全非的莱斯塔特突然出现。搏斗中，路易斯抓起油灯掷向了莱斯塔特，火焰立刻将他吞没。在吞没半个城市的雄雄烈火中，路易斯与克萝迪娅登上了去巴黎的轮船。
两人在巴黎过着即象父女、又像情人的生活。他们还见到了同类：以阿芒德为首的聚居在剧院地下的一群吸血鬼。阿芒德给了路易斯许多教导。然而，在吸血鬼的世界中，谋害同类是唯一的犯罪。为此，路易斯和克萝迪娅之间出现了裂痕。 在克萝迪娅的要求下， 他把克萝迪娅也变成了吸血鬼，作为他离开克萝迪娅后的替代。然而， 吸血鬼圣地亚哥突然率众出现， 抓走了他们。路易斯被封入墙中，克萝迪娅和她的女伴则被暴露在阳光下处死。
路易斯被阿芒德所救，他发誓要进行报复。不久，他乘吸血鬼们沉睡时放火烧毁了它们的巢穴，杀死了圣地亚哥和众多的吸血鬼。他拒绝了阿芒德和他一起生活的要求，独自离开了巴黎。失去了克萝迪娅的路易斯倍受打击。他四处流浪，却始终无法抚平心中的创伤。19 88年，路易斯返回了新奥尔良， 见到了受伤虚弱、 独自隐居的莱斯塔特。路易斯向一个年轻记者马洛伊讲述了自己的经历，希望以此训鉴后人。不料马洛伊在听完之后却被深深地吸引，还执意要路易斯把他变成吸血鬼。路易斯厌恶地离开了他。失望的马洛伊独自驾车返家。然而，莱斯塔特却突然在车后座上出现。他吸了马洛伊的血，治愈了伤愈，带着马洛伊驾车驶向远方。一个新的吸血鬼故事，又将从此开始……
赏析
1975年，小说《造访吸血鬼》刚刚出版，其影片拍摄权就立即被人买走。然而直到1994 年，小说才终于被尼尔.乔丹搬上了银幕。这期间，足足经过了20年的时光和无数次的修改与完善。令制作者们心慰的是，影片一经推出，就引起了巨大的反响，可谓好评如潮，而导演尼尔.乔丹的才华和实力也得以再次充分展现，并从此广为人知。
《造访吸血鬼》是一部跨越时空，纵横想象的宏篇巨作。在影片中，导演以吸血鬼的世界这一独特的层面为出发点，将真、善、美与假、丑、恶进行了比较，并以此来影射当代社会中的许多潜在的危机和罪恶。导演在影片中牢牢地把握住了人性这一命题并加以阐发。因此，虽然近年来吸血鬼题材的影片屡见不鲜，这一部却显得分外与众不同，富有张力和动人的情感力量。演员阵容的强大也是这部影片的一大特色：布拉德·皮特、汤姆·克鲁斯、安东尼奥·班德拉斯，都是极富票房号召力的实力派偶像巨星。其演技自然也在影片中发挥得淋漓尽致，彼此之间毫不相让。一时间星光闪烁，几乎令人眼花缭乱。就连客串配角马洛伊的，也是颇有名气的实力派青年演员克里斯汀·史莱特。其演员阵容可谓空前强大，而几位演员之间的大较演技也使得影片大放光彩，令影迷大饱眼福。汤姆·克鲁斯在片中一改往日的好青年形象，饰演残暴的吸血鬼莱斯塔特；而安东尼奥·班德拉斯虽然是出演配角，其魅力却不输于主角人物，着实抢去了不少镜头；事业正处于迅猛上升之势的布拉德.皮特自然也不示弱，让影迷们再次见到了他的高超演技，并向观众展示了他无愧于主角位置的实力。几位影星的努力使影片获得了巨大的成功。而对于各位演员来说，这部影片也是他们巩固和发展在影坛中的地位的大好机会。
It is widely believed that "Dracula's Guest" is actually the deleted first chapter from the original Dracula manuscript, which the publisher felt was superfluous to the story. However, some scholars, such as David J. Skal and Elizabeth Miller, disagree.[1] In the preface to the original edition of Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, Stoker's widow Florence wrote, "To his original list of stories in this book, I have added an hitherto unpublished episode from Dracula. It was originally excised owing to the length of the book, and may prove of interest to the many readers of what is considered my husband's most remarkable work."[2]
Leslie S. Klinger, who had access to Stoker's original Dracula manuscript[3] while researching his 2008 book The New Annotated Dracula, saw evidence of "Dracula's Guest" having been deleted from the manuscript, such as a deleted sentence of Harker commenting that his throat is "still sore from the licking of the gray wolf's file-like tongue"[4] and the first and second chapters of the finished novel being labeled in the manuscript as "ii"[5] and "iii".[6] Klinger ultimately concludes the following:
And so what may we make of ["Dracula's Guest"]? Without the name "Dracula" appearing in the title and [Dracula's] message [sent to the narrator], there would be very little to connect this traveler's tale with [the novel Dracula]. The style is completely different; the narrator shares few characteristics with Jonathan Harker; and the action somehow fails to connect the story set forth in [Dracula]. However, there are numerous references in the [Dracula] Manuscript to some version of the tale eventually published as "Dracula's Guest." Most likely, a different draft — one that identified the narrator as Harker — was included in ... an early version of [the Dracula manuscript]. It may be that Stoker's publisher requested that the book be shortened, or the publisher (or Stoker) may have felt that the "stylistic" aspects of the narrative were more important than its veracity. For whatever reason, the material was excised, and only later did Stoker return to the material and work it into its published form.[7]
Plot summary
"Dracula's Guest" follows an Englishman (whose name is never mentioned but is presumed to be Jonathan Harker) on a visit to Munich before leaving for Transylvania. It is Walpurgis Night, and in spite of the hotelier's warning to not be late back, the young man later leaves his carriage and wanders toward the direction of an abandoned 'unholy' village. As the carriage departs with the frightened and superstitious driver, a tall and thin stranger scares the horses at the crest of a hill.
Upon reaching a desolate valley after a few hours, it begins to snow and as a dark storm gathers intensity, Harker takes shelter in a grove of cypress and yew trees. Harker's location is soon illuminated by moonlight to be a cemetery, and he finds himself before a marble tomb with a large iron stake driven through the roof, the inscription reads: Countess Dolingen of Gratz / in Styria / sought and found death / 1801. Inscribed on the back of the tomb "graven in great Russian letters" is: The dead travel fast.
Harker is disturbed to be in such a place on such a night and as the storm breaks anew, he is forced by hail to shelter in the doorway of the tomb. As Harker avoids the pelting hail, the bronze door of the tomb opens under his weight and a flash of forked lightning shows the interior - and a "beautiful woman with rounded cheeks and red lips, seemingly sleeping on a bier". The force of the following thunder peal throws Harker from the doorway (experienced as "being grasped as by the hand of a giant") as another lightning bolt strikes the iron spike, destroying the tomb and the now screaming woman inside.
The Englishman's troubles are not quite over, as he painfully regains his senses from the ordeal, he is repulsed by a feeling of loathing which he connects to a warm feeling in his chest and a licking at this throat. Harker summons courage to peek through his eyelashes and discovers a gigantic wolf with flaming eyes is attending him.
Military horsemen are the next to wake the semi-conscious man, chasing the wolf away with torches and guns. Some horsemen return to the main party and Harker after the chase, reporting that they had not found 'him' and that Harker's animal is: "A wolf - and yet not a wolf". They also note that blood is on the ruined tomb yet Harker's neck is un-bloodied, "See comrades, the wolf has been lying on him and keeping his blood warm", strangely later, Harker finds his neck pained when a horseman comments on it.
When Harker is taken back to his hotel by the men, he is informed that it is none other than his expectant host Dracula that has alerted his employees, the horsemen, of "dangers from snow and wolves and night" in a telegram received by the hotel in the time Harker was away.
Film, TV, and other adaptations
* David O. Selznick bought the film rights to "Dracula's Guest" and later re-sold them to Universal Studios. Universal's 1936 film Dracula's Daughter was ostensibly based on the story, although it uses nothing from the plot.[8]
* Vampyros Lesbos a 1971 erotic horror film directed by Jesus Franco was "inspired" by Bram Stoker's short story.
* A radio drama adaptation of "Dracula's Guest" was produced in 1999 by the Radio Tales series for National Public Radio.
* Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse, a 2006 film by The Asylum, takes its title from the alternate name for Dracula's Guest, but bears little resemblance to the actual story by Bram Stoker.
* A direct-to-DVD film titled Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest was released in 2008, though it is not an adaptation of the story and uses nothing of the plot.
* The 2008 book Dracula's Heir, written by Sam Stall, treats "Dracula's Guest" as a true story and expands it. In Dracula's Heir, the story revolves around why the chapter was removed from Dracula. The female vampire in "Dracula's Guest" is revealed to be the killer in Dracula's Heir, and the reason the chapter was removed was because she did not want her identity revealed.
* Dracula was adapted in 2009 as a five-part comic book miniseries from Dynamite Entertainment. The miniseries, titled The Complete Dracula, incorporates "Dracula's Guest" into the story.[9]
* A comic book adaptation by Stephen Antczak, James Bassett and Steven Sanders was published by Robot Comics in 2010. [10]
* Joel Surnow announced that he pitched an adaption of Dracula's Guest as a Television series to The CW and is scheduled to debut in November 2010. Bradley Cooper has been cast as the role of Dracula.
Leslie S. Klinger, who had access to Stoker's original Dracula manuscript[3] while researching his 2008 book The New Annotated Dracula, saw evidence of "Dracula's Guest" having been deleted from the manuscript, such as a deleted sentence of Harker commenting that his throat is "still sore from the licking of the gray wolf's file-like tongue"[4] and the first and second chapters of the finished novel being labeled in the manuscript as "ii"[5] and "iii".[6] Klinger ultimately concludes the following:
And so what may we make of ["Dracula's Guest"]? Without the name "Dracula" appearing in the title and [Dracula's] message [sent to the narrator], there would be very little to connect this traveler's tale with [the novel Dracula]. The style is completely different; the narrator shares few characteristics with Jonathan Harker; and the action somehow fails to connect the story set forth in [Dracula]. However, there are numerous references in the [Dracula] Manuscript to some version of the tale eventually published as "Dracula's Guest." Most likely, a different draft — one that identified the narrator as Harker — was included in ... an early version of [the Dracula manuscript]. It may be that Stoker's publisher requested that the book be shortened, or the publisher (or Stoker) may have felt that the "stylistic" aspects of the narrative were more important than its veracity. For whatever reason, the material was excised, and only later did Stoker return to the material and work it into its published form.[7]
Plot summary
"Dracula's Guest" follows an Englishman (whose name is never mentioned but is presumed to be Jonathan Harker) on a visit to Munich before leaving for Transylvania. It is Walpurgis Night, and in spite of the hotelier's warning to not be late back, the young man later leaves his carriage and wanders toward the direction of an abandoned 'unholy' village. As the carriage departs with the frightened and superstitious driver, a tall and thin stranger scares the horses at the crest of a hill.
Upon reaching a desolate valley after a few hours, it begins to snow and as a dark storm gathers intensity, Harker takes shelter in a grove of cypress and yew trees. Harker's location is soon illuminated by moonlight to be a cemetery, and he finds himself before a marble tomb with a large iron stake driven through the roof, the inscription reads: Countess Dolingen of Gratz / in Styria / sought and found death / 1801. Inscribed on the back of the tomb "graven in great Russian letters" is: The dead travel fast.
Harker is disturbed to be in such a place on such a night and as the storm breaks anew, he is forced by hail to shelter in the doorway of the tomb. As Harker avoids the pelting hail, the bronze door of the tomb opens under his weight and a flash of forked lightning shows the interior - and a "beautiful woman with rounded cheeks and red lips, seemingly sleeping on a bier". The force of the following thunder peal throws Harker from the doorway (experienced as "being grasped as by the hand of a giant") as another lightning bolt strikes the iron spike, destroying the tomb and the now screaming woman inside.
The Englishman's troubles are not quite over, as he painfully regains his senses from the ordeal, he is repulsed by a feeling of loathing which he connects to a warm feeling in his chest and a licking at this throat. Harker summons courage to peek through his eyelashes and discovers a gigantic wolf with flaming eyes is attending him.
Military horsemen are the next to wake the semi-conscious man, chasing the wolf away with torches and guns. Some horsemen return to the main party and Harker after the chase, reporting that they had not found 'him' and that Harker's animal is: "A wolf - and yet not a wolf". They also note that blood is on the ruined tomb yet Harker's neck is un-bloodied, "See comrades, the wolf has been lying on him and keeping his blood warm", strangely later, Harker finds his neck pained when a horseman comments on it.
When Harker is taken back to his hotel by the men, he is informed that it is none other than his expectant host Dracula that has alerted his employees, the horsemen, of "dangers from snow and wolves and night" in a telegram received by the hotel in the time Harker was away.
Film, TV, and other adaptations
* David O. Selznick bought the film rights to "Dracula's Guest" and later re-sold them to Universal Studios. Universal's 1936 film Dracula's Daughter was ostensibly based on the story, although it uses nothing from the plot.[8]
* Vampyros Lesbos a 1971 erotic horror film directed by Jesus Franco was "inspired" by Bram Stoker's short story.
* A radio drama adaptation of "Dracula's Guest" was produced in 1999 by the Radio Tales series for National Public Radio.
* Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse, a 2006 film by The Asylum, takes its title from the alternate name for Dracula's Guest, but bears little resemblance to the actual story by Bram Stoker.
* A direct-to-DVD film titled Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest was released in 2008, though it is not an adaptation of the story and uses nothing of the plot.
* The 2008 book Dracula's Heir, written by Sam Stall, treats "Dracula's Guest" as a true story and expands it. In Dracula's Heir, the story revolves around why the chapter was removed from Dracula. The female vampire in "Dracula's Guest" is revealed to be the killer in Dracula's Heir, and the reason the chapter was removed was because she did not want her identity revealed.
* Dracula was adapted in 2009 as a five-part comic book miniseries from Dynamite Entertainment. The miniseries, titled The Complete Dracula, incorporates "Dracula's Guest" into the story.[9]
* A comic book adaptation by Stephen Antczak, James Bassett and Steven Sanders was published by Robot Comics in 2010. [10]
* Joel Surnow announced that he pitched an adaption of Dracula's Guest as a Television series to The CW and is scheduled to debut in November 2010. Bradley Cooper has been cast as the role of Dracula.
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. It was first published as a hardcover in 1897 by Archibald Constable and Co.[1]
Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of letters, diary entries, ships' logs, etc. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical, film and television interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of letters, diary entries, ships' logs, etc. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical, film and television interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
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