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Author : Mike Shepherd
Publisher : Wild Wolf Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1907954694
Family memories, maps, photographs and newly-opened archives provide the untold story of how Dracula came to be written. Also includes an introduction by Dacre Stoker.
Author : Dina Khapaeva
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787695290
What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in popular culture characterizes a unique moment in Western cultural history and suggests a new set of attitudes toward people, monsters, and death.
Author : Duncan Harley
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750991131
Duncan Harley takes the reader on a grand tour through Aberdeenshire's fascinating and rich history, culminating in a collection of stories and facts that will make you marvel at the events this county has witnessed. Read about the Beaker People, blue-painted Picts and the Roman legionnaires who tried, but ultimately failed to subdue the local populace. William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and Donald Trump inhabit these pages alongside tales of Bloody Harlaw, the Herschip of Buchan and the battle of Mons Graupius. Discover the painter priest of Macduff, the English Dillinger, the famous diggers of Inverurie's George Square and the strange tale of how Lawrence of Arabia 'got his scuds' over at Collieston. The Little History of Aberdeenshire is guaranteed to enthral both residents and visitors alike.
Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030408664
By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.
Author : Clive Leatherdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1874287074
The Origins of Dracula
Author : J.D. Barker,Dacre Stoker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735219366
The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula’s true origins but Bram Stoker’s—and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them. It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here... A sickly child, Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents' Dublin home, tended to by his caretaker, a young woman named Ellen Crone. When a string of strange deaths occur in a nearby town, Bram and his sister Matilda detect a pattern of bizarre behavior by Ellen—a mystery that deepens chillingly until Ellen vanishes suddenly from their lives. Years later, Matilda returns from studying in Paris to tell Bram the news that she has seen Ellen—and that the nightmare they've thought long ended is only beginning.
Author : Michael Burgan,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781524788476
Who HQ brings you the stories behind the most beloved--and frightening!--characters of our time. Find out how Dracula--a smooth-talking count with a dark secret--became the infamous creature we all know and fear. From appearances in films and animated features to interpretations as a Muppet and breakfast cereal mascot, Dracula has been the inspiration for many other fictional vampires and is now an established figure in pop culture. Created by Bram Stoker in his 1897 Gothic horror novel, Count Dracula is a nobleman who uses his powers as a vampire to dominate his victims. Even though Dracula didn't succeed in the novel, the fictional character has lived on to dominate the real world as one of its most popular supernatural villains. Author Michael Burgan explores Dracula's mysterious origins in the historical figures who might have shaped the character, as well as the films and actors that cemented Dracula's place in cinematic history.
Author : David J. Skal
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429998451
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commidity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all.
Author : Clive Leatherdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
ISBN : UCSC:32106012677750
Author : Mike Shepherd
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910324554
Becoming the centre of public debate during the 2014 Scottish referendum, the North Sea oil forms a crucial chapter in Scottish history. Written by an industry insider, a combination of lightly technical explanation and anecdotal accounts explore the process of developing new oil fields and oil production. A poignantly human perspective of a lucrative and challenging industry, Shepherd highlights the importance of the reserves to a nation, and the impact of the production surge upon the men and women of the local community in Aberdeen.
Author : Dacre Stoker,Ian Holt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Dracula (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 014317228X
Does the legendary vampire prince, thought to be destroyed, remain un-dead? It is 1912, twenty-five years after Dracula "crumbled into dust." Vampire-hunter Dr. Van Helsing's protégé, Dr. Jack Seward, is now a disgraced morphine addict who's convinced that Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a murderous, ravenhaired beauty born in 1560, still walks the earth. Meanwhile, the intelligent and capable Mina, wife of Jonathan Harker, has her own concerns: her son Quincey has finally learned his parents' terrible secrets, but not soon enough to prevent Jonathan's brutal murder in Piccadilly Circus. Someone is stalking the band of heroes who defeated Dracula. Could it be that Dracula somehow survived their attack and is seeking revenge? Could it be that love never dies? Based on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads, this is the bone-chilling sequel to the timeless classic Dracula.
Author : Raymond T. McNally,Radu Florescu
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
ISBN : NYPL:33433049865920
This scholarly work rediscovers the roots of the Dracula legend in the historical figure of Prince Vlad of Transylvania. It includes excerpts from Bram Stoker's diaries, and the tale of Nicolae Ceausescu's attempt to make Vlad a national hero
Author : Enid A. Goldberg,Norman Itzkowitz
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0531125998
This book examines the life and times of Vlad Tepes Dracula, fifteenth century leader, whose methods of punishment earned him the surname of "The Impaler" and inspired Bram Stoker's novel about Count Dracula.
Author : Bernard Swysen
Publisher : Europe Comics
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9791032806852
Everyone knows about Dracula the vampire, but have you ever heard of Voivode Vlad Dracula of Wallachia? Perhaps you know him better by his nickname: Vlad the Impaler! The bloodthirsty prince was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's notorious character, but although the real Dracula gained infamy for his favorite method of execution—impaling—few know the true details of his life. Swysen and Solé have created an intimate and accurate portrait of this vicious tyrant, allowing you to follow his journey from childhood to death, with guaranteed laughs along the way.
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780394848280
String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker. Follow Johnathan Harker, Mina Harker, and Dr. Abraham van Helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy Count Dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of London... and back again.