Bram Stoker (1847-1912), an Irish novelist and short story writer, was known during his lifetime as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned, but is best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. Leslie S. Klinger is one of the world's foremost authorities on Sherlock Holmes. He is the editor of the three-volume set The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. The first two volumes, The Complete Short Stories, won the Edgar for "Best Critical/Biographical" work. He has just published In the Company of Sherlock Holmes and The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Klinger is a member of the Baker Street Irregulars and lives in Malibu. Neil Gaiman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books and is the recipient of numerous literary honors. Originally from England, he now lives in America.
"Leslie S. Klinger’s great virtue as an editor is his sublimely
willful and scrupulous disregard for the boundary between
historical fact and literary falsehood. In The New Annotated
Dracula, he reprises the same earlier annotated Sherlock Holmes,
treating Stoker’s novel as nonfiction: real events happening to
real persons. After a brief preface in which he explains his trick,
Klinger’s edition becomes a surreal treat, book’s succession of
journal entries and letters."
*BookPage*
"This is a book every serious reader of the horror genre should
have on his or her shelf. You will read Dracula with new eyes.
Fascinating!"
*Stephen King*
"Leslie S. Klinger's great virtue as an editor is his sublimely
willful and scrupulous disregard for the boundary between
historical fact and literary falsehood. In The New Annotated
Dracula, he reprises the same earlier annotated Sherlock
Holmes, treating Stoker's novel as nonfiction: real events
happening to real persons. After a brief preface in which he
explains his trick, Klinger's edition becomes a surreal treat,
book's succession of journal entries and letters." -- BookPage
"This is a book every serious reader of the horror genre should
have on his or her shelf. You will read Dracula with new
eyes. Fascinating!" -- Stephen King
The Dover volume collects 14 of Stoker's lesser-known horror stories such as "The Crystal Cup," "The Burial of the Rats," and "A Gipsey Prophecy." Though most of his other fiction has been overshadowed by Dracula, these offer some real chills and warrant reading. While editions of Dracula, which celebrated its centennial in 1997, are legion, Broadview's offers several extras, including a chronology of Stoker's life and appendixes on Transylvania, London, Mental Physiology, Reviews and Interviews, and more. That along with the full text make this one of the best editions available, especially at this remarkable price.
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