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For the dead travel fast

Dracula by Bram Stoker, Tavia Gilbert (Narrator), J.P. Guimont (Narrator)

February 16, 2024 by dreadpiratekel 2 Comments

The story that Stoker tells, via letters, diary entries, telegrams, and even a few newspaper articles, is about what happens when the undead Count Dracula travels to London and how his activities (mainly bloodsucking and general bad vibes vampire business) interact with the protagonists of the novel. This isn’t my first encounter with the Count; I read a children’s version as a child and then delved into the actual text during high school. Since then, I’ve consumed numerous other adaptations of this tale. My decision […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: bram stoker, Bram Stoker, Tavia Gilbert (Narrator), J.P. Guimont (Narrator), Dracula, vampires

dreadpiratekel's CBR16 Review No:8 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror · Tags: bram stoker, Bram Stoker, Tavia Gilbert (Narrator), J.P. Guimont (Narrator), Dracula, vampires ·
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Dracula sucks…but the book doesn’t!

Dracula by Bram Stoker

October 31, 2020 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Dracula sucks but the book doesn’t. I go through phases of reading classics or otherwise tackling books with reputations of being difficult. Sometimes it’s easy to see why books are classics – they’re timeless and engrossing. A Tale of Two Cities is that way for me. So is Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. Other times the classics feel like archaeological work. The reader is excavating and extrapolating. Dracula felt like work to me, but the reader can definitely appreciate the book’s influence on future work. In particular, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: bram stoker, gothic, Gothic Horror, vampire

Halbs's CBR12 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: bram stoker, gothic, Gothic Horror, vampire ·
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Later that summer, when Mrs. Penmark looked back and remembered, when she was caught up in despair so deep she knew there was no way out…

The Bad Seed by William March

Dracula's Guest and Other Stories by Bram Stoker

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James

The Dare by RL Stine

The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

October 19, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Bad Seed – 3/5 Stars The book about a bad kid hurting and killing other people, and the questions around what makes her tick. I guess I think I have seen the movie of this years ago, but other than “bad kid” I don’t recall much of it. The book dives into the psychology and especially the genetics of the questions of “bad kid” in ways that I imagine are pretty early for the genre. So this is the book that sort of started […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: bram stoker, dracula's guest, ghost stories of antiquary, jay anson, M.R. James, R.L. Stine, the bad seed, The Dare, William March

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:556 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: bram stoker, dracula's guest, ghost stories of antiquary, jay anson, M.R. James, R.L. Stine, the bad seed, The Dare, William March ·
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Less Bite Than I Imagined

Dracula by Bram Stoker

March 6, 2020 by blauracke Leave a Comment

Written in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is obviously one of the most famous horror stories of all time, introducing the character of Count Dracula and a slew of vampire lore. The story of the count travelling to England to spread his evil, and a group of men and women led by expert on the undead Abraham von Helsing trying to stop him, is told through a series of diary and journal entries, letters, telegrams, and newspaper articles. And herein already lies one of the fundamental […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: bram stoker

blauracke's CBR12 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: bram stoker ·
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If you’re patient it’s not a bad read.

Dracula by Bram Stoker

January 26, 2020 by tillie 2 Comments

Dracula as a phenomenon has pretty much taken on a life of its own to the point where I thought I knew all about it.I mean, Dracula is Dracula right?! Turns out I don’t! Dracula isn’t at all what I expected. It is told through a collection of diary entries, letters, notes and telegrams following various people through the novel. The story opens with Jonathan Harker traveling from London to the estate of Dracula in Transylvania. It’s all very spooky and mysterious, Dracula doesn’t eat, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, bram stoker, British, classics, Dracula, horror, tilliereads, vampire

tillie's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, bram stoker, British, classics, Dracula, horror, tilliereads, vampire ·
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“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”

Dracula by Bram Stoker

December 28, 2019 by narfna 2 Comments

I don’t have the time or energy to write as much or as deeply as I would like to about this strange, 100+ year old book, so I’m just going to settle with posting some brief thoughts below. Somehow I managed to make it out of years and years of schooling, with two English degrees, without reading this book. Which is right up my alley! All that discussion of monsters and things that are taboo swathed in metaphor. I love that shit. When I first […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror Tagged With: bram stoker, classics, Dracula, epistolary, horror, narfna, read harder challenge 2019, Victorian

narfna's CBR11 Review No:137 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror · Tags: bram stoker, classics, Dracula, epistolary, horror, narfna, read harder challenge 2019, Victorian ·
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