Stoker Horror Trilogy: Dracula, Lair of the White Worm & Lady of the Shroud (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

• Three of Irish author Bram Stoker's Gothic horror and vampire books are in this Kindle trilogy: Dracula, The Lair of the White Worm & The Lady of The Shroud Dracula Jonathan Harker is a newly qualified solicitor en route to Transylvania to give advice to Count Dracula on a real estate deal. Instead, Harker becomes his prisoner and witness to the Count’s disturbing nocturnal life. Harker soon falls under the spell of "The Sisters" - three female vampires - but escapes. Shortly afterward, a Russian ship runs aground in England. All of its crew are missing. The captain's log describes their tumultuous journey and the ship's strange cargo from Transylvania. When Harker arrives home, he finds he must once again face Dracula and his blood lust. Lair of the White Worm (1911) Scottish archaeology student Angus excavates the site of a convent when he uncovers an unusual skull apparently belonging to a snake He tries to find the local legend of the d'Ampton "worm". When a pocket watch belonging to a missing man is found miles away, he believes the legendary creature may still be alive beneath the cavern. The Lady of the Shroud (1909, a novella) Rupert Saint Leger inherits an estate worth more than one million pounds, but there is one condition: he must live for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains on the Dalmatian coast. One night, he is visited by a pale woman wearing a wet shroud. She dries herself before the fire but flees before morning. She visits several more times before he falls in love, despite believing her to be a vampire living in a glass-topped stone coffin in the crypt. About The Author Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847 –1912) was an Irish novelist and short story author best known today for his 1897 Gothic classic Dracula. He was also the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and manager of London’s Lyceum Theatre. Part of the inspiration for Dracula is believed to have come from. Stoker’s visit to the English town of Whitby in 1890.