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NOTE: DRACULA’S GUEST was excised from the original DRACULA MSS by his publisher because of the length of the original book MSS. It was published as a short story in 1914, two years after Stoker’s death. When we started for our drive the sun was shining brightly on Munich, and the air was full of [...]

[NOTE: This essay was published (with some minor differences) in Niekas No. 45 (1998) and was written several years earlier. The "past twenty years" mentioned refer to the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. If I were writing this article now, I would add Kim Newman's Anno-Dracula (Carroll and Graf, 1992) and its [...]

It happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of the ton a nobleman more remarkable for his singularities, than his rank. He gazed upon the mirth around him, as if he could not participate therein. Apparently, the light laughter of the [...]

16th century Hungarian noblewoman who tortured & murdered around 600 virgins (lucky for her she didn’t live in the 1990′s!). She bathed in their blood believing it would preserve her beauty.

1430-1 Vlad Dracula was born. And shortly afterwards, Dracul his father, is invested into “The Order of the Dragon”.