PAYING GUESTS (Annotated and With Active Table of Contents)
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Contents Dracula's guest -- The judge's house -- The squaw -- The secret of the growing gold -- The gipsy prophecy -- The coming of Abel Behenna -- The burial of the rats -- A dream of red hands -- Crooken sands. Read more Read less. Product description Review This is a book every serious reader of the horror genre should have on his or her shelf.
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A good sample of his horror stories other than those featuring Dracula. It appears that the story "Dracula's Guest" was originally supposed to be part of the main novel. Some of the stories like "The Squaw" are well known, but most are not. A superb collection, some of the stories are incredibly spooky though. Stoker's stories are interesting no matter what he's writing about eh.
See all 4 reviews. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. Bram Stoker is known the world over as the author of DRACULA, one of the Victorian era's most celebrated novels, certainly one of the horror genre's foundational works. It was not, however, his only work; Stoker also wrote at least eleven other novels and novellas and any number of short stories, none of them as widely known or celebrated as his masterwork.
Well, maybe, maybe not; a good many critics have noted that it is quite unlike DRACULA in tone and that it is difficult to see where the piece would have fit in the novel.
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Whatever the case, the story concerns an unnamed traveler, possibly Johnathan Harker, who is traveling in Germany on Walpurgis Night, and very foolishly leaves his coach to stroll down a lane of unsavory reputation. A ruined town, a cemetery, a violent storm, a wolf, and and an unexpected rescue follow, but quite frankly I wasn't impressed by it. Probably the best of the stories that follow is "The Judge's House," the story of student Malcom Malcolmson, who seeks out an isolated town and further still an isolated house in which to study.
He is warned that the house was once home to a judge notorious for his excessive sentences, but he pays the warnings no mind Well written and distinctly creepy, "The Judge's House" seems similar in plot and even tone to Edgar Allen Poe, and it also seems to anticipate various works by H. But the remaining stories are not especially memorable. A black cat furiously follows a tourist into a historical torture chamber in "The Squaw," and the results are hardly unexpected. They are entertaining enough in their way, but I won't be sitting up at night over any of them. The synopsis was completely misleading as it implied there was other short stories contained within.
Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. Get to Know Us. I realize that sounds like the plot of a Lifetime movie, but this story's a bit of a far cry from the straight horror genre, which I appreciated in this anthology. Set up a giveaway. Where another writer may have sullied the experience of "the queen" and her fate, Benson makes certain that social mores triumph but without too much rancor.
I was already familiar with Dracula's Guest being the missing first chapter of the novel Dracula as I owned a short story anthology of other "chilling tales" that contained it when I was a teenager. That book has long since disappeared, so I'm happy to have the story again. I'm very disappointed that the only other things contained within were attempts to get me to purchase sets of x number of stories you should read before you die.
Um they're free on Amazon individually. I already own most of them.
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So glad I didn't pay for this one! Dracula being one of my favorite books, I was thrilled to find this collection of Bram Stoker's short stories.
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I enjoy horror writers who can provoke old-fashioned fright without relying too heavily on graphic details; while those details have a place, too many of them dampen a story. July 26, Language: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 4 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. It is a great treat for any E F Benson enthusiast to come across another of his social comedies. The novel is a humorous portrait of the 'gentry' sojourning at a guest house in an English health spa.
The novel does not have the finesse and polish of Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels, but is a delightful find for all E. One person found this helpful. I like his sense of humor, but Lucia books are much, much better. Benson had a sharp eye for human foibles, especially self-deception, but he was never quite merciless. Born into one of the most talented and strangest families in England, he specialized in his own upper-middle class, usually leaving the aristocracy as the object of their social aspirations and the lower classes as background.
This novel is set among a slightly less prosperous set, the solid middle class as they were considered then who don't need to work but still do need to keep an eye on their finances. However, they have the same pretensions, absurdities, and failings of their financial betters and Benson is at his best here. Some of the characters are types familiar from his other works, a devout Christian Scientist who tries to convince herself she is not experiencing any pain; a pompous retired military man; an over-bearing father who browbeats and emotionally abuses his seemingly submissive daughter; and two women who in today's contemporary and more forthright works would be immediately be recognized as lesbians.
They are all staying at a guesthouse near a spa that treats gout and arthritis. Their personality clashes and scheming form the book, which starts primarily as a series of character sketches but then develops more of a plot as the two lonely young women become friends.
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Benson deftly skewers them all but with a certain affection; the only character who does not receive any sympathy is the domineering father. Highly recommended for those who enjoy comedies of manner, gentle satire, or what might happen if Ambrose Bierce, Dorothy Parker, and PG Wodehouse managed to travel in time and have a child. See all 4 reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.
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