‘Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories’ is a collection of short stories that includes ‘Dracula’s Guest, ‘ ‘The Judge’s House, ‘ ‘The Squaw, ‘ ‘The Secret of the Growing Gold, ‘ ‘A Gipsy Prophecy, ‘ ‘The Coming of Abel Behenna, ‘ ‘The Burial of the Rats, ‘ ‘A Dream of Red Hands, ‘ and ‘Crooken Hands.’ Among the most captivating of these tales is ‘Dracula’s Guest, ‘ which is widely believed to be the first chapter of Stoker’s original ‘Dracula’ 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 ‘The Lair of the White Worm, ‘ 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 ‘Dracula’ will delight in this fine collection of horror stories by the same author.
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