Dracula's Guest And Other Weird Tales by Bram Stoker Read Free Book Online

‘seen’ her mysterious guest in a dream many years before their meeting, while Carmilla avers to having experienced a similar epiphany. Jacob Settle is haunted by dreams of being barred from heaven in Stoker’s ‘A Dream of Red Hands’, whilst Arthur Markam is similarly disturbed by dreams of seeing his own death in ‘Crooken Sands’; and in
The Lady of the Shroud
(1909) Rupert Sent Leger’s adventures in the Blue Mountains are dreamt about, weeks beforehand, by his aunt in Scotland.
    18 .  Robert Louis Stevenson,
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
, ed. Robert Mighall (London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2002), p. 22.
    19 .  H. G. Wells,
The Time Machine
(London: Victor Gollancz, 1999), pp. 45, 63.
    20 .  Emily Brontë,
Wuthering Heights
, ed. Pauline Nestor (London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2003), p. 22.
    21 .  See Daniel Farson,
The Man Who Wrote ‘Dracula’
, p. 217.
    22 .  David Seed, ‘Eruptions of the Primitive into the Present:
The Jewel of Seven Stars
and
The Lair of the White Worm
’, in
Bram Stoker
, eds. Hughes and Smith, p. 197.
    23 .  Stoker,
The Man
(London: William Heinemann, 1905), pp. 79–80.
    24 .  Ibid., p. 434.
    25 .  Concern over a transient, easily displaced masculinity is evident throughout Stoker’s works. The necessity for multiple men to counteract the threat of a single woman is manifest in ‘Dracula’s Guest’ where a male wolf and a entire brigade of dragoons come to the rescue of the narrator who himself admits to feeling ‘unmanned’ ( Chapter II ) in the presence of the Countess’s tomb. Similarly, in
Dracula
it takes the four-strong ‘Crew of Light’ to overcome the Count and his group of female revenants.
    26 .  For example: Drakelow (‘the dragon’s mound’), three miles north of Kidderminster; ‘Drakeholes’ (‘dragon’s valley’), four milessouth-east of Bawtry in Nottinghamshire; Wormwood Hill in Stapleford, south-east of Cambridge; and Wormhill and Wormsley, respectively about five miles west and six miles northwest of Hereford. Sarah Zaluckyj,
Mercia: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Central England
(Almley: Logaston Press, 2001), P 57.
    27 .  Bram Dijkstra,
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 305–15.
    28 .  Ian W. Walker,
Mercia and the Making of England
(Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2000), pp. 113–21.
    29 .  Cited in Waldberg,
Surrealism
(London: Thames and Hudson, 1965), p. 66.
    30 .  Bram Stoker, ‘The Censorship of Fiction’. Cited in
A Glimpse of America and Other Lectures, Interviews and Essays
, ed. Richard Dalby (Essex: Desert Island Books Ltd, 2002), p. 157.
    31 .  From
Le Second Manifeste du Surréalisme
(1929). Cited in Waldberg,
Surrealism
, p. 76.
    32 .  Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
In Memoriam
, 2nd edition, ed. Erik Gray (New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 2004), p. 41.
    33 .  Cited in Murray,
From the Shadow of Dracula
, p. 204.
    34 .  Stoker,
Dracula
, p. 371.
    35 .  Ibid., p. 362.
    36 .  Gina Lombroso-Ferrero,
Criminal Man According to the Classifications of Cesare Lombroso
(London and New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911), p. xv.
    37 .  In the last decades of the nineteenth century the prospect of what H. G. Wells called ‘downward modification’ haunted the European imagination. Degeneration theory essentially reversed and compressed the narrative of evolutionary progress, arguing for the latent potential of mankind to physically and morally regress. The works of men such as Benedict Augustin Morel, Cesare Lombroso, Max Nordau and Henry Maudsley proposed a theory of retrograde evolution which appeared to provide a scientific explanation for the ills of society, attributing them to individuals who had been born with mental, moral or physical degenerative symptoms. Indeed, as both a branch of biology and a form of cultural criticism, ‘degeneration’ became a highly portable term to apply to