The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Bram Stoker - Stoker, Bram
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One of Stokers finest novels--and more! The penultimate volume-number four in this five volume collection of Bram Stoker's macabre fiction commences with a novel that is widely regarded as one of the author's finest. In 'The Mystery of the Sea,' Stoker has drawn on every exciting and strange element he could conceive to the create a gripping tale that combines horror, suspense, adventure and romance. Surely, a story of death visions, second sight, shipwreck, lost treasure, ancient codes, weird prophecies, sinister enemies and abduction is irresistible! This superb and substantial novel is…mehr

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One of Stokers finest novels--and more! The penultimate volume-number four in this five volume collection of Bram Stoker's macabre fiction commences with a novel that is widely regarded as one of the author's finest. In 'The Mystery of the Sea,' Stoker has drawn on every exciting and strange element he could conceive to the create a gripping tale that combines horror, suspense, adventure and romance. Surely, a story of death visions, second sight, shipwreck, lost treasure, ancient codes, weird prophecies, sinister enemies and abduction is irresistible! This superb and substantial novel is accompanied here by three essential shorter works, 'The Shadow Builder,' 'The Castle of the King' and the evocatively titled 'The Death Doom of the Double Born.' As always this book is available in softcover and hardcover with dust jacket.
Autorenporträt
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847- 20 April 1912) was an Irish writer. He supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula which he published in 1897. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers. Stoker's inspiration for the story was a visit to Slains Castle near Aberdeen. The bleak spot provided an excellent backdrop for his creation. Dracula has been the basis for countless movies and plays. The first was Nosferatu directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlock. Nosferatu was produced while Florence Stoker, Bram Stoker's widow and literary executrix, was still alive. Represented by the attorneys of the British Incorporated Society of Authors, she eventually sued the filmmakers. Her chief legal complaint was that she had been neither asked for permission for the adaptation nor paid any royalty. The case dragged on for some years, with Mrs Stoker demanding the destruction of the negative and all prints of the movie. The suit was finally resolved in the widow's favour in July 1925. Some copies of the movie survived, however, and Nosferatu is now widely regarded as an innovative classic. The most famous movie version of Dracula is the 1931 production starring Bela Lugosi and which spawned several sequels that had little to do with Stoker's novel.