Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

Front cover of the first edition
Author	Bram Stoker
Cover artist	William Bradshaw Handforth
Genre	Short stories, horror fiction
Publisher	George Routledge and Sons
Publication date	1914
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	200
OCLC	3952965
LC Class	PZ3.S8743 Dr14 PR6037.T617 (Arrow Books, 1974) [1]

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death, at the behest of his widow Florence Balcombe. ^[2]

Contents

• Contents of the collection
• Adaptations
• Notes
• References
• External links

The color illustration for the book cover was by British illustrator William Bradshaw Brandforth, depicting a scene from the short story. The English guest is shown prostrate on the snow as a large wolf stands over him howling. In the background can be seen a horse and coach approaching. White tombstones can also be seen in the cemetery along with the guest's cane as snow swirls all around.

The same collection has been issued under short titles including simply Dracula's Guest. Meanwhile, collections published under longer titles contain different selections of stories.

Contents of the collection

Adaptations

• "The Burial of the Rats" was adapted in 1995 as a movie called Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats by Roger Corman's film company^{[ citation needed ]} and as a comic book by Jerry Prosser and Francisco Solano Lopez.^{[ citation needed ]}
• "The Squaw" was adapted for comics by Archie Goodwin (script) and Reed Crandall (art) for Creepy magazine no.13.
• "Dracula's Guest" was adapted for comics by E. Nelson Bridwell (script) and Frank Bolle (art) for Eerie magazine no.16.
• On 26 May 1926, a reading of "The Judge's House" appeared on the radio programme Ghost Programme on 2LO. ^[4]
• On 28 February 1949, an adaptation of "The Judge's House" arranged by John Keir Cross aired on the BBC Light Programme show The Man in Black . It starred Hugh Burden as Malcolm Malcolmson, Howieson Culff as Mr. Carnford, and Gladys Young as Mrs. Dempster. ^[5]
• On 25 September 1981, a radio drama adaptation of the story written by Bob Juhren and starring Gordon Gould and Lloyd Battista aired on CBS Radio Mystery Theater . ^[6]
• In January 1982, a radio play adaptation of "The Judge's House" dramatised by Patricia Mays and directed by Derek Hoddinott aired on the BBC World Service. It starred Nigel Havers as Malcolmson and Jane Thompson as Mrs. Witham. ^[7]
• On 9 April 1989, an adaptation of "The Judge's House" aired on the Fear on Four programme BBC Radio 4. Dramatised by John Keir Cross, directed by Gerry Jones, and presented by Edward de Souza, it featured David Timson as Malcolm, Tessa Worsley as Mrs. Dempster, and Norman Bird as Carnford. ^[8]
• In 1999, the story was adapted by Carla Jablonski into a Wishbone story, "No Noose Is Good News", that was published in the short story collection Tails of Terror .
• In 2018, "The Judge's House" was included in an adaptation of The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories by Anita Sullivan for BBC Radio 4 Extra. Directed by Karen Rose, the segment featured Luke Thompson as Malcolmson, Pippa Haywood as Mrs. Witham, and Kathryn Drysdale as Dempster. ^[9]
• In October 2024, Neu Noir Theatre staged a theatrical adaptation of "The Judge's House" starring Richard Usher. ^[10]

Notes

References

• Klinger, Leslie S. (2008) The New Annotated Dracula. W.W. Norton & Co.. ISBN   0-393-06450-6.
• Skal, David J. (1993). The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror. Penguin Books. ISBN   0-14-024002-0.

External links

• The full text of Dracula's Guest at Wikisource
• The full text of The Judge's House at Wikisource
• The full text of The Burial of the Rats at Wikisource
• The full text of A Dream of Red Hands at Wikisource
• The full text of The Coming of Abel Behenna at Wikisource
• The full text of Crooken Sands at Wikisource
• Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories at Project Gutenberg
• Bram Stoker Online – Full text and PDF versions of the entire collection.
• Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales public domain audiobook at LibriVox