Bram Stoker 
Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories 

‚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.