![]() ![]() Published by University of Georgia Press, 2015 Robertson, Robert Ryan, Henrietta McBurney Simpson Jr., Marcus B. Preston, Diana Preston, Michael Reeds, Karen Reveal, James L. Laird, Mark Magee, Judith Meacham, Sarah Hand Overstreet, Leslie K. Herbert, Valerie Hurley, Suzanne Linder Jarvis, C. Krech III, Shepard Adler, Kraig Bauer, Aaron M. The Curious Mister Catesby: A "Truly Ingenious" Naturalist Explores New Worlds (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) But he would have been surprised, and quite pleased, to learn that his creation had inspired so many future authors. Stoker's novel, Dracula, was a hit at the time. ![]() And, of course, he had read Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu and The Vampyr by John Polidori, the writer who is often credited with the creation of the vampire genre. Although he had never visited Eastern Europe, he had an Hungarian acquaintance named Armin Vambery who liked to spin dark and inspirational tales about the Carpathian Mountains. ![]() ![]() Bram Stoker, born in Dublin in 1847, was part of the artistic community in London, the community that included Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, Arthur Conan Doyle and many others. Wells The Inn by Guy de Maupassant The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe and Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens. James The Judge's House by Bram Stoker Caterpillars by E. Hartley The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Count Magnus by M. This anthology contains: The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson The Festival by H. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine no interior markings. ![]()
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