DRACULA by BRAM STOKER (B & N Classic Edition) Quality Softcover

Description: YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU'LL NEED A WOODEN STAKE - AND GARLIC! TO READ THIS BOOK you need the right circumstances. It should be late on a cold, wintry night with a wind moaning through the trees right outside your bedroom window. Maybe the power is out and you are reading by flickering candle-light - and the shadows around your bed don't look familiar. If you are lucky, there will be howling in the distance. A wolf? Something bigger? Tuck the blankets around your neck and start reading. Those are ideal circumstances for getting stuck into Dracula, the granddaddy of Gothic horror stories, the spooky tale that has provided life-blood to all Vampire stories since it appeared in 1897. So to speak. IRISH AUTHOR BRAM STOKER - BRAM IS SHORT FOR ABRAHAM - wrote many novels. But his reputation depends on Dracula which was an instant shuddering success, coming out in Victorian England at a time when there was much enthusiasm for creepy stories like Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The basic theme of Dracula is Professor Abraham van Helsing's desperate effort to stop Count Dracula's search for new blood after he relocates from Transylvania to England by ship (which is doomed of course). It is from this tale that we have all learned that the best way to deal with vampires is to drive stakes through their hearts, suffuse them with garlic and confront them with crucifixes. Most other methods won't work. So we have been bled to believe. MANY SPLENDID EDITIONS OF THIS CULT NOVEL HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED at all levels of quality - from expensive leather-bound collectibles to inexpensive paperbacks. It has never lost its popularity and has been adapted many times for cinema and radio. The handsome collectible edition we offer here is in the affordable middle price range. It has a soft cover - but it is far from being your usual paperback. The cover It has a striking finish that marks it as a quality production that can be displayed proudly on a collector's bookshelf. BARNES AND NOBLE ISSUE IT HERE AS A CLASSIC EDITION. The cover has a silver and black design on a deep red background with the design continuing to the spine and the rear cover. Inside is an attached ribbon page-marker (In this case in red too - of course.) Our book is brand new, unopened and awaiting its first nervous owner and reader. It is of gift quality. Publisher: Barnes & Noble ISBN: 978-1-4351-5957-0 Classic Gothic Horror story ++ All books sold by Mackie Books are packaged in bubble wrap to guard against damage. + Click here to see other listings by Mackie Books on eBay, including American and international classics. + We ship internationally through eBay's Global Shipping Program. + All the pictures we post with our eBay listing are from the actual books being sold and are not stock pictures. + We like to get books to you in the condition described above. This means careful packaging - our specialty. + We use recycled material for packaging whenever possible - and we ask our friends to do this too! + At Mackie Books, we believe book-collecting should be fun.

Price: 21.95 USD

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