Everyone has met Count Dracula. Almost no one has met Bram Stoker. The man who wrote the most famous horror novel ever published spent thirty-five years writing twelve novels, dozens of stories, and two strange works of nonfiction—and nearly all of it vanished into the shadow of his single masterpiece. This volume brings the whole of it back.
Here, complete in one volume, is the entire surviving work of Bram Stoker. At its center stands Dracula itself, unabridged. Around it gather the other gothic novels that fed the same dark imagination—The Jewel of Seven Stars and its ancient Egyptian curse, The Lair of the White Worm and its primordial horror, The Lady of the Shroud, The Snake’s Pass, and the seafaring mystery of The Mystery of the Sea—together with the posthumous tales of Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories.
And then there is the Stoker no modern reader knows: the early novels long lost to crumbling magazines and out-of-print first editions—The Primrose Path, The Watter’s Mou’, The Shoulder of Shasta, Miss Betty, and the dark fairy tales of Under the Sunset—restored here from the original sources, several available in a reliable text for the first time in over a century. His two major works of nonfiction, the affectionate Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving and the skeptical Famous Impostors, complete the portrait.
WHY THIS EDITION? Dracula is free everywhere. The rest of Stoker is scattered, out of print, or lost. This Erato Press edition gathers all sixteen of his surviving books into a single volume for the first time—so the reader who came for Dracula can finally discover the strange, haunted body of work that produced it.
This annotated edition includes:
All sixteen surviving books: twelve novels, two collections of short fiction, and two works of nonfictionDracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars (in Stoker’s revised 1912 text), complete and unabridgedFive long-unavailable early works, newly restored from the original serials and first editionsA critical essay, “The Hand and the Trance,” on the obsessions that run through the whole of Stoker’s writingA biographical portrait of Bram StokerThe editors have restored rather than revised: Victorian language and attitudes are preserved as part of the historical record.
