Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

&quote;Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories&quote; is a collection of short stories that includes &quote;Dracula's Guest,&quote; &quote;The Judge's House,&quote; &quote;The Squaw,&quote; &quote;The Secret of the Growing Gold,&quote; &quote;A Gipsy Prophecy,&quote; &quote;The Coming of Abel Behenna,&quote; &quote;The Burial of the Rats,&quote; &quote;A Dream of Red Hands,&quote; and &quote;Crooken Hands.&quote; Among the most captivating of these tales is &quote;Dracula's Guest,&quote; which is widely believed to be the first chapter of Stoker's original &quote;Dracula&quote; manuscript. A young Englishman is restlessly wandering about Munich before traveling to Transylvania. When he foolishly leaves his hotel and explores a dense forest, he finds a graveyard with an evil ghost, endures a snowstorm, and has a surprising encounter with a wolf. This volume also includes the novella &quote;The Lair of the White Worm,&quote; a horror story which revolves around Adam Salton, a native Australian invited to England by his only surviving relative, Richard Salton. All seems well until he meets the neighbors and discovers a cruel mesmerist, an enormous kite, a violent woman with unknown designs, and a colossal white worm seeking victims near its pit. Fans of &quote;Dracula&quote; will delight in this fine collection of horror stories by the same author.