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A Note on the Texts
    The text follows that of both the first edition of
Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories
, collated by Florence Stoker and published in London in April 1914 by George Routledge & Sons Ltd (price 1s.) and the first edition of
The Lair of the White Worm
, published in London in November 1911 by William Rider and Son Ltd (price 6s.).
    The Routledge edition of
Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories
went through three impressions in 1914, and ten more in the next twenty years. A souvenir edition limited to 1, 000 copies was published in 1927 to mark the occasion of the 250th London performance of
Dracula
at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre in London. Given away to members of the audience, when the book was opened, a black bat (separately enclosed in the front cover), powered by elastic, flew out. In 1966 Jarrolds and Arrow simultaneously published the stories under the title
Dracula’s Guest
(price 15s., and 3s. 6d. respectively), and in 1974 Arrow published a reprinted edition with identical pagination. An American edition of
Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories
was published in New York by Hillman-Curl Inc. in 1937 (price $1.50).
    Following its initial publication in 1911,
The Lair of the White Worm
was subsequently published by W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd in 1925 (price 2s.); this edition was heavily abridged and partly rewritten (with the deletion of both the illustrations and several important passages), condensed to only twenty-eight chapters and 182 pages of text. The modern reprints from Arrow (1960), Jarrolds (1966) and Brandon (1991) used this condensed version instead of the original. An American editionof
The Lair of the White Worm
was published by The Paperback Library (New York) in May 1966 under the title
The Garden of Evil
. This edition contained the complete text of the original edition of
The Lair of the White Worm
.
    Minor alterations in typography and punctuation (the length of dashes, single quotation marks for doubles and no full stop after personal titles or monarch’s numbers, e.g. Mr, Mrs, William IV) have been silently made throughout the text printed here to conform to house style. The majority of other inconsistencies of spelling and punctuation such as Stoker’s fickle use of the oxford comma, variant spellings (e.g. ‘realise’/‘realize’, ‘Walpurgis