"Finally a collection of nine Bram Stoker supernatural tales that together birthed Dracula"--Page 1 of cover

"With ... scholarly analysis illuminating the themes and techniques that would culminate in Dracula, this ... volume demonstrates how Stoker crafted his masterpiece piece by piece through these earlier works. The inclusion of the newly discovered 'Gibbet Hill' provides the missing link in understanding how Stoker's early experiments with colonial anxiety, landscape horror, and the intrusion of foreign threats into English spaces would coalesce into literature' most enduring vampire tale"--Page 4 of cover

Brief bio - Bram Stoker, master of Victorian horror -- Tourist horror: the vulnerable traveler in Stoker's Gothic evolution. Gibbet Hill (1890) ; The squaw (1893) ; Crooken Sands (1894) -- Supernatural revenge: justice from beyond. The secret of growing gold (1892) ; The judge's house (1891) ; A dream of red hands (1894) -- Dark innocence: the horror of transformation. The dualitists (1887) ; The crystal cup (1872) ; Dracula's guest (1914) -- Gibbet Hill

(1890) --

Squaw

(1893) --

Crooken Sands

(1894) --

Secret of the growing gold

(1892) --

Judge's house

(1891) --

A dream of red hands

(1894) --

Dualitists

(1887) --

Crystal cup

(1872) --

Dracula's guest

(1914)