Bram Stoker Vampire Audiobooks MP3 DVD *UK FREEPOST*

The Essential Bram Stoker Collection

Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1847. The son of a civil servant, Stoker was a sickly child. Stoker's mother, a charity worker and writer, spent a good deal of time entertaining her son with fantastic tales. Stoker went on to study math at Trinity College and graduated in 1867, at which time he joined the Irish civil service. He also worked as a freelance journalist and drama critic, which enabled him to meet the legendary stage actor Henry Irving. The two men became lifelong friends, and Stoker managed Irving's theater from 1878 until Irving's death in 1905. Stoker married an aspiring actress, Florence Balcombe, and the couple had one son, Noel, who was born in 1879. Stoker moved to London in order to oversee Irving's theater, and he fell into the city's literary circles, which included figures such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Stoker's early fiction is not of particularly high quality. He wrote short stories for children and then a first novel, The Snake's Pass (1890), which was unsuccessful. Stoker's fortunes changed in 1897 with the publication of Dracula, which still stands as his greatest -literary achievement. Although the novel was not an immediate popular success, it has been in print continuously since its first publication and has inspired countless films and other literary works. Stoker continued to write until his death in 1912, producing several adventure novels, including The Jewel of Seven Stars (1904) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911)

This collection consists of the 3 essential Bram Stoker novels,the classic Dracula along with The Jewel of the Seven Stars and Lair of the White Worm

Dracula

Vampire legends have been a part of popular folklore in many parts of the world since ancient times. Throughout the Middle Ages and even into the modern era, reports of corpses rising from the dead with supernatural powers achieved widespread credence. The Dracula family, which Stoker's count describes with pride in the early chapters of the novel, is based on a real fifteenth-century family. Its most famous member, Vlad Dracula—or Vlad the Impaler, as he was commonly known—enjoyed a bloody career that rivaled that of his fictional counterpart. The Prince of Wallachia, Vlad was a brilliant and notoriously savage general who impaled his enemies on long spikes. The prince also had a reputation for murdering beggars, forcing women to eat their babies, and nailing the turbans of disrespectful ambassadors to their heads. While Stoker's Count Dracula is supposed to be a descendant of Vlad, and not the prince himself, Stoker clearly makes the count resemble his fearsome ancestor. This historical allusion gives Dracula a semblance of truth, and, as the Author's Note and the coda make clear, Stoker wants to suggest that the documents assembled in the novel are real.

Stoker also relies heavily on the conventions of Gothic fiction, a genre that was extremely popular in the early nineteenth century. Gothic fiction traditionally includes elements such as gloomy castles, sublime landscapes, and innocent maidens threatened by ineffable evil. Stoker modernizes this tradition in his novel, however, moving from the conventional setting of Dracula's ruined castle into the bustle of modern England. As Stoker portrays the collision of two disparate worlds—the count's ancient Transylvania and the protagonist's modern London—he lays bare many of the anxieties that characterized his age: the repercussions of scientific advancement, the consequences of abandoning traditional beliefs, and the dangers of female sexuality. To this day, Dracula remains a fascinating study of popular attitudes toward sex, religion, and science at the end of the nineteenth century

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# Chapter 06 – 00:31:50

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# Chapter 13 – 00:44:48

# Chapter 14 – 00:39:15

# Chapter 15 – 00:39:31

# Chapter 16 – 00:30:49

# Chapter 17 – 00:34:04

# Chapter 18 – 00:35:37

# Chapter 19 – 00:30:10

# Chapter 20 – 00:35:30

# Chapter 21 – 00:31:25

# Chapter 22 – 00:32:40

# Chapter 23 – 00:28:36

# Chapter 24 – 00:42:02

# Chapter 25 – 00:35:24

# Chapter 26 – 00:43:35

# Chapter 27 – 01:01:29

The Jewel of the Seven Stars

The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Bram Stoker first published in 1903. The story is about an archaeologist’s plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy.

# 01 – A Summons in the Night – 00:27:47

# 02 – Strange Instructions – 00:25:27

# 03 – The Watchers – 00:30:39

# 04 – The Second Attempt – 00:30:54

# 05 – More Strange Instructions – 00:34:23

# 06 – Suspicions – 00:34:29

# 07 – The Traveller’s Loss – 00:31:20

# 08 – The Finding of the Lamps – 00:27:36

# 09 – The Need of Knowledge – 00:31:57

# 10 – The Valley of the Sorcerer – 00:36:56

# 11 – A Queen’s Tomb – 00:30:50

# 12 – The Magic Coffer – 00:28:57

# 13 – Awaking From the Trance – 00:34:27

# 14 – The Birth-Mark – 00:34:46

# 15 – The Purpose of Queen Tera – 00:31:20

# 16 – The Cavern – 00:34:58

# 17 – Doubts and Fears – 00:35:09

# 18 – The Lesson of the ‘Ka’ – 00:29:20

# 19 – The Great Experiment – 00:50:07

The Lair of the White Worm

This book centers on Adam Salton who is contacted by his great uncle in England, for the purpose of establishing a relationship between these last two members of the family. Adam travels to Richard Salton’s house in Mercia, and quickly finds himself in the center of some inexplicable occurrences. The new heir to the Caswall estate, Edgar Caswall appears to be making some sort of a mesmeric assault on a local girl. And, a local lady, Arabella March, seems to be running a game of her own, perhaps angling to become Mrs. Caswall. There is something strange about Lady March, something inexplicable and evil…

# 01 – Adam Salton Arrives – 00:08:51

# 02 – The Caswalls of Castra Regis – 00:14:45

# 03 – Diana’s Grove – 00:08:45

# 04 – The Lady Arabella March – 00:17:03

# 05 – The White Worm – 00:13:38

# 06 – Hawk and Pigeon – 00:11:09

# 07 – Oolanga – 00:10:54

# 08 – Survivals – 00:15:30

# 09 – Smelling Death – 00:10:42

# 10 – The Kite – 00:15:36

# 11 – Mesmer’s Chest – 00:10:42

# 12 – The Chest Opened – 00:10:15

# 13 – Oolanga’s Hallucinations – 00:11:01

# 14 – Battle Renewed – 00:17:52

# 15 – On the Track – 00:06:03

# 16 – A Visit of Sympathy – 00:09:32

# 17 – The Mystery of “The Grove” – 00:07:39

# 18 – Exit Oolanga – 00:09:16

# 19 – An Enemy in the Dark – 00:12:11

# 20 – Metabolism – 00:13:39

# 21 – Green Light – 00:13:07

# 22 – At Close Quarters – 00:05:57

# 23 – In The Enemy’s House – 00:14:17

# 24 – A Startling Proposition – 00:13:29

# 25 – The Last Battle – 00:14:26

# 26 – Face to Face – 00:12:25

# 27 – On the Turret Roof – 00:14:47

# 28 – The Breaking of the Storm – 00:24:52

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