Introduction & Notes by Dr David Rogers Kingston University & There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed for the white hair & moustache were changed to dark iron-grey the cheeks were fuller & the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood which trickled from the corners of the mouth & ran over the chin & neck Even the deep burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh for the lids & pouches underneath were bloated It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech exhausted with his repletion& Thus Bram Stoker one of the greatest exponents of the supernatural narrative describes the demonic subject of his chilling masterpiece Dracula a truly iconic & unsettling tale of vampirism ...

Collected inside this book are diary entries letters & newspaper clippings that piece together the depraved story of the ultimate predator A young lawyer on an assignment finds himself imprisoned in a Transylvanian castle by his mysterious host Back at home his fiancee & friends are menaced by a malevolent force which seems intent on imposing suffering & destruction Can the devil really have arrived on England&s shores? & what is it that he hungers for so desperately? ...

When Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to sell a house he little expects the horrors that await 64 pages Stoker Bram ...

&it was butcher workthe horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form & lips of bloody foam& Bram Stoker&s 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London the very heart of the British Empire Only a handful of men & women stand between Dracula & his long-cherished goal but they are vulnerable & weak against the cunning & supernatural powers of the Count & his legions As the horrifying story unfolds in the diaries & letters of young Jonathan Harker Lucy Mina & Dr Seward Dracula will be victorious unless his nemesis Professor Van Helsing can persuade them that monsters still lurk in the era of electric light The most famous of all vampire stories Dracula is a mirror of its age its underlying themes of race religion science superstition & sexuality never far from the surface A compelling read rattling along at break-neck speed it is a modern classic This new edition

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker& Alone with the dead! I dare not go out for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window&A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home he makes a horrifying discovery Soon afterwards a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman&s neck; & the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the arrival of his & Master& while a determined group of adversaries prepares to face the terrifying Count The Penguin English Library
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Count Dracula arrives in London & immediately works to enrapture & transform into vampires young Lucy Weston & her friend Mina Seward After he succeeds in turning Lucy & Mina&s health suddenly deteriorates Mina&s father calls in a specialist Professor Abraham Van Helsing Van Helsing quickly recognizes Dracula&s vampirism & sets about saving Mina ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Classic film version of the vampire tale based on Hamilton Deane&s theatrical adaptation of Bram Stoker&s novel Estate agent Renfield (Dwight Frye) travels to Transylvania to arrange the sale of an English mansion to nobleman Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) When Renfield discovers that his host is a 500-year-old vampire he is bitten & himself enslaved After arriving in London Dracula attempts to get his teeth into Mina Seward (Helen Chandler) an innocent maiden betrothed to Jonathan Harker (David Manners) Vampire expert Professor Van Helsing (Edward van Sloan) attempts to put a stop to the bloodsucking ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An ancient evil is once again unleashed in the 21st century as fright master Wes Craven presents this terrifying & suspenseful sequel to the big-screen hit Dracula 2001! Ascension is the riveting story of a group of medical students who come across the body of the world&s most notorious vampire! When a mysterious stranger appears & offers the students 30 million to harvest the body & steal its blood for auction it&s an offer they can hardly refuse! But as the lure of riches collides with unimaginable terror the students also find themselves relentlessly pursued by a vampire killer from the Vatican! Actors Jennifer Kroll Jason Scott Lee Craig Sheffer Diane Neal Khary Payton Jason London Chris Hunter Stephen Billington Roy Scheider John Light David J Francis John Sharian & Brande Roderick Director Patrick Lussier Certificate 15 years & over Year 2003 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
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Please note this is the NTSC version of the game which is fully compatible with PAL systems Dracula Origin is the new adventure game from Frogwares studio the team that developed the famous Sherlock Holmes series for PC Having successfully tackled the myth of Cthulhu in Sherlock Holmes The Awakened Frogwares is once again venturing into a disturbing & fantastic universe the world of the Prince of Darkness in an adventure which combines romanticism mystery & horror Young charming & devout Dracula was once an ardent defender of Christendom but lost his faith in God when he is abandoned by his one true love after she marries Count Dracula then makes a pact with the Prince of Darkness & becomes a vampire with an insatiable thirst for blood & vengeance cursed to eternal damnation In the game you play the role of Professor Van Helsing the celebrated vampire hunter on the hunt for Dracula while Dracula himself is on a quest for a mysterious manuscript which will give him the power to raise the dead Your goal is to prevent Dracula from finding & using this manuscript & also to kill him in order to liberate the souls of all those who have had the misfortune to cross his path Using conventional &point & click& gameplay Dracula Origin is a superb adventure supported by impeccable graphics & a rich storyline which takes you to London Egypt Austria & of course to Transylvania the famous home of the great vampire With a subtle combination of 2D environments & animated 3D characters the game faithfully reproduces the world imagined by the celebrated author Bram Stoker with all its associated motifs (horror love blood crucifixes stakes garlic etc) in a disturbing finely-realised & absorbing Gothic atmosphere An unrelenting pursuit of one of the most terrifying figures from fantasy literature Confrontation between two antithetical heroes Van Helsing the restrained scientist & spiritual hero & the young & high-spirited Dracula whose inhumanity matches his malevolence superb graphics combining 2D environments & 3D characters A deep storyline focusing on Van Helsing&s quest to kill the king of all vampires & Dracula&s quest to find the manuscript to raise the dead Interaction with over 40 characters Use a combination of over 150 objects associated with the vampire-themed storyline (stake statue garlic mirror etc) A romantic bloody & violent Gothic ambiance which is true to the original world created by Bram Stoker providing total immersion into the adventure A progressive Help System to lead players to the solution with more & more accurate hints ...

After being left stranded in the Carpathian mountains four English tourists are taken to an eerie old castle by a driverless carriage On arrival they are welcomed by a strange butler His master is looking for new blood ...