![]() the name short story from the collection has been a popular item to include in vampire and horror anthologies. ![]() The Dracula's Guest collection would be reprinted a number of times (though far less than Dracula) through the first half of the twentieth century, and after it entered the public domain. Harry Ludlam would in his 1962 biography of Stoker, for example, devote several paragraphs to retelling Florence's account of the lost chapter. But as fate has entrusted to me the issuing of it, I consider it fitting and proper to let it go forth practically as it was left by him.įlorence Stoker's account of "Dracula's Guest," remained unchallenged to the 1980s. Had my husband lived longer, he might have seen fit to revise this work, which is mainly from the earlier years of his strenuous life. The other stories have already been published in English and American periodicals. To his original list of stories in this book, I have added a hitherto unpublished episode from "Dracula." It was originally excised owning to the length of the book, and may prove of interest to the many readers of what is considered my husband's most remarkable work. ![]() In the Preface to the collection of short stories, Dracula's Guest, Florence Stoker wrote:Ī few months before the lamented death of my husbandI might say even as the shadow of death was over himhe planned three series of short stories for publication, and the present volume is one of them. ![]()
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