''Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories'' is a collection of

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death, at the behest of his widow Florence Balcombe."'Missing person' Florence Stoker added to DIB"
Royal Irish Academy, 2020-01-06. Retrieved 2022-05-24. 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

Adaptations

* "The Burial of the Rats" was adapted in 1995 as a movie called '' Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats'' by

Roger Corman Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of Corman's films are based on works t ...

's film company and as a comic book by

Jerry Prosser Jerry Prosser is an American comic book writer and editor, best known for his work with Dark Horse Comics. Prosser was part of Dark Horse Comics from its early days, and was one of five creators, who as ''Team CGW'' created the Comics' Greatest ...

and Francisco Solano Lopez. * "The Squaw" was adapted for comics by Archie Goodwin (script) and Reed Crandall (art) for ''

Creepy Creepiness is the state of being wikt:creepy, creepy, or causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or wikt:unease, unease. A person who exhibits creepy behaviour is called a creep. Certain traits or hobbies may make people seem creepy to others. The ...

'' magazine no.13. * Dracula's Guest was adapted for comics by E. Nelson Bridwell (script) and

Frank Bolle Frank W. Bolle (June 23, 1924 – May 12, 2020) was an American comic-strip artist, comic book artist and illustrator, best known as the longtime artist of the newspaper strips ''Winnie Winkle'' and ''The Heart of Juliet Jones''; for stints on th ...

(art) for ''

Eerie ''Eerie'' was an American magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing. Like '' Mad'', it was a black-and-white magazine intended for newsstand distribution and did not submit its stories to the comic book industry's volunta ...

'' magazine no.16.

Notes

References

* Klinger, Leslie S. (2008) ''The New Annotated Dracula''. W.W. Norton & Co.. . * Skal, David J. (1993). ''The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror''. Penguin Books. .

External links

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Bram Stoker Online
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