Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Front cover of the first edition
Author	Bram Stoker
Cover artist	Handforth
Country	United Kingdom
Genre	Short stories, horror fiction
Publisher	George Routledge and Sons
Publication date	1914
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]

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

Title	Date of first publication	Location of first publication^[3]
"Dracula's Guest"	1914	Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
"The Judge's House"	5 December 1891	Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
"The Squaw"	1 December 1893	Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
"The Secret of the Growing Gold"	23 January 1892	Black and White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review
"A Gipsy Prophecy"	1914	Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
"The Coming of Abel Behenna"	1914	Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
"The Burial of the Rats"	26 January 1896	Lloyd’s Weekly News
"A Dream of Red Hands"	11 July 1894	The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality
"Crooken Sands"	December 1894	Holly Leaves: The Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

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.

Notes

^ "Dracula's guest" (Arrow Books, 1974). LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-09-23.
^ "'Missing person' Florence Stoker added to DIB" Royal Irish Academy, 2020-01-06. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
^ von Ruff, Al. "The Internet Speculative Fiction Database". Newsarama.com. Retrieved 2012-12-21.

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

Bram Stoker

Novels

The Primrose Path (1875)
The Snake's Pass (1890)
The Watter's Mou' (1895)
The Shoulder of Shasta (1895)
Dracula (1897)
Miss Betty (1898)
The Mystery of the Sea (1902)
The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903)
The Man (1905)
Lady Athlyne (1908)
The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
The Lair of the White Worm (1911)

Short story collections

Under the Sunset (1881)
Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908)
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914)
- "Dracula's Guest"

Non-fiction

The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879)
A Glimpse of America (1886)
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906)
Famous Impostors (1910)

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Universe

Characters

Publications

Dracula (1897)
Powers of Darkness (1899)
- Icelandic
- Swedish
"Dracula's Guest" (1914)
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914)

Dacre Stoker	Dracula the Un-dead (2009) Dracul (2018)

Possible inspirations

Castles

Films

Universal series	Dracula (1931 English-language) Dracula (1931 Spanish-language) Dracula's Daughter (1936) Son of Dracula (1943) House of Frankenstein (1944) House of Dracula (1945) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Hammer Horror	Dracula (1958) The Brides of Dracula (1960) Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) Scars of Dracula (1970) Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
Dracula 2000	Dracula 2000 (2000) Dracula II: Ascension (2003) Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
Nosferatu films	Nosferatu (1922) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Nosferatu in Venice (1988) Shadow of the Vampire (2000) Nosferatu (2024)
Hotel Transylvania	Hotel Transylvania (2012) Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)
Parodies	Transylvania 6-5000 (1963) Mad Monster Party? (1967) Batman Fights Dracula (1967) Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972) Blood for Dracula (1974) Vampira (1974) Son of Dracula (1974) Dracula in the Provinces (1975) Dracula and Son (1976) Dracula Sucks (1979) Love at First Bite (1979) The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (1979) Fracchia contro Dracula (1985) Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) The Monster Squad (1987) Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988) Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) Monster Mash (1995) Monster Mash (2000) Zora the Vampire (2000) Monster Family (2017)
Other	Drakula halála (1923) The Return of the Vampire (1943) Drakula İstanbul'da (1953) Blood of Dracula (1957) The Return of Dracula (1958) Batman Dracula (1964) Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966) Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969) Santo en el tesoro de Drácula (1969) Count Dracula (1970) Los Monstruos del Terror (1970) Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) Vampyros Lesbos (1971) Hrabe Drakula (1971) Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) Blacula (1972) Scream Blacula Scream (1973) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974) Count Dracula's Great Love (1974) Deafula (1975) Dracula's Dog (1977) Count Dracula (1977) Doctor Dracula (1978) Dracula (1979) Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979) Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned (1980) Dracula's Widow (1988) To Die For (1989) Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Nadja (1994) Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000) Bara no Konrei ~Mayonaka ni Kawashita Yakusoku~ (2001) Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) Dracula (2002) Van Helsing (2004) Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004) The Vulture's Eye (2004) Dracula 3000 (2004) Blade: Trinity (2004) The Batman vs. Dracula (2005) Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse (2006) Dracula (2006) Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (2008) The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008) House of the Wolf Man (2009) Young Dracula (2011) Dracula Reborn (2012) Dracula 3D (2012) Saint Dracula 3D (2012) Dracula 2012 (2013) Dracula: The Dark Prince (2013) Dracula Untold (2014) Renfield (2023) The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) Abigail (2024) Dracula: A Love Tale (TBA)

Television

Series

Monster Squad (1976)
Draculas ring (1978)
Cliffhangers (1979)
Drak Pack (1980)
Count Duckula (1988–1993)
Dracula: The Series (1990–1991)
Little Dracula (1991–1999)
Monster Force (1994)
Ace Kilroy (2011–2012)
Young Dracula (2006–2014)
- characters
Dracula (2013–2014)
Penny Dreadful (2014–2016)
Decker (2014–2017)
Van Helsing (2016–21)
Hotel Transylvania: The Series (2017–2020)
Castlevania (2017–21)
Dracula (2020)

Episodes

"Dracula" (Mystery and Imagination) (1968)
"Buffy vs. Dracula" (2000)
Young Dracula episodes (2006–2014)
Penny Dreadful episodes (2014–2016)
Hotel Transylvania: The Series episodes (2017–2020)

The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror	"Treehouse of Horror IV" (1993) "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (2010)

Novels
The Dracula Tape and sequels (1975–2002) Anno Dracula series (1992–present) Anno Dracula The Bloody Red Baron Dracula Cha Cha Cha The Revenge of Dracula (1978) Little Dracula (1986) Dracula the Undead (1997) The Historian (2005) The Book of Renfield (2005) Bloodline (2005) Young Dracula and Young Monsters (2006) Fangland (2007) Out of the Dark (2010)

Radio
Dracula (1938)

Plays
Dracula (1924) Dracula (1995) Dracula (1996)

Musicals
Dracula (Czech musical) (1995) Dracula: A Chamber Musical (1997) Dracula, the Musical (2004) Dracula – Entre l'amour et la mort (2006) Dracula – L'amour plus fort que la mort (2011)

Comics
Crossover Dracula (Marvel Comics) The Tomb of Dracula X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula Captain Britain and MI13: Vampire State Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos Dracula (Dell Comics) Don Dracula Dracula Lives! Hellsing Sword of Dracula Batman & Dracula trilogy Victorian Undead Wolves at the Gate Purgatori Rick and Morty – Let the Rick One In

Video games

The Count (1979)
Dracula (1983)
Ghost Manor (1983)
Castlevania series
- 1986–present
- Dracula
Dracula (1986)
Dracula the Undead (1991)
Drac's Night Out (unreleased)
Dracula Hakushaku (1992)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (handheld) (1993)
Dracula Unleashed (1993)
Dracula: Resurrection (2000)
Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary (2000)
Dracula: Crazy Vampire (2001)
Van Helsing (2004)
Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon (2008)
Dracula: Origin (2008)
Vampire Season Monster Defense (2012)
Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon (2013)
Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy (2013)
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (2013)
Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood (2023)

Pinball
Dracula (1979) Taxi (1988) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993) Monster Bash (1998)

Tabletop games
The Fury of Dracula

Albums
Dracula Dracula 2000 Iubilaeum Anno Dracula 2001 Perfect Selection: Dracula Battle Transylvania Van Helsing

Songs
"Love Song for a Vampire"

Audio dramas
Son of the Dragon

Original characters

Alternative versions of Dracula	Alucard (Hellsing) Count Alucard Count Orlok Soma Cruz
Relatives of Dracula	Alucard (Castlevania) Vampire Hunter D Eva Janus Dracula Lilith Dracula Shiklah Dracula
Other	Blade Count von Count Simon Belmont

Related
Lugosi v. Universal Pictures Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories Count Dracula in popular culture Transylvanian Society of Dracula Dracula Daily Dracula Society Dracula tourism Bibliography of works on Dracula