I'll just paste in all my separate reviews of the stories:Dracula's Guest: A (very) short story. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be the first chapter of Dracula, or something? The main character COULD be Jonathan Harker, but we don't know. It feels very similar to the beginning of Dracula.The Judge's House: A good and pretty creepy story!The Squaw: Full review here: http://carolinesometimes.blogspot.com...The Secret Of Growing Gold: This really reminds me of Poe's Telltale Heart, just not a...

Finished this a while ago and forgot to update! I'm a Stoker fan so finding a book with stories I didn't know he had written was a treasure! Loved them all - can't wait to reread Dracula!

Happily suprised by the short stories, I really enjoyed them! But the last one in this edition, the novel The Lair of the white worm, just... don't bother. It makes no sense and is ridiculous. And it made me angry because it was so stupid. Zero stars.

Read the first short story last year, Dracula's Guest. I vaguely remember liking it, don't remember much about the story, only the creepy atmosphere. Although I find the writing peculiar, I've decided it was a great time to pick it up again, maybe I'll even finish the book this time.Dracula's Guest - 3,75⭐️The Judge's House - 3,5⭐️ - Again, the atmosphere is great, very creepy. It made me laugh a few times. Also, the ending reminded me of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', even though this one isn't...

I love Bram Stoker. “The Judge’s House”, “The Squaw”, “Dracula’s Guest” and “The Burial of the Rats” were my favourite short stories in this collection :)

It is shocking to me that the same man who penned Dracula wrote this trash. It is a shame to Stoker's legacy that these stories managed to be published. In addition to generally shitty, stupid, and at times verging on incomprehensible storytelling, there is some of the most explicit and disturbing racism I have ever encountered. I am disgusted. This kind of ruins Dracula for me :(

I did not read the novel "The Lair of the White Worm" - only the short stories. And of the short stories "Dracula's Guest" was the dud. The rest of the stories were enjoyable horror/uncanny tales not unlike Poe, but much better written than Lovecraft (a EULA is better written than Lovecraft, though depending on the software, can be just as full of horror.)

I use Poe as my 'measure' of 'old school horror' and was not sure how Stoker would hold up. He has more than exceeded my expectations. Each tale takes the reader to a place of trapped uncertainty; knowing that you have to follow through if you have any slight hope of salvation. My favorite story was The Burial of the Rats - highest recommendation.

AcknowledgementsChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the Texts--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--Crooken Sands--The Lair of the White WormAppendix I: Florence Stoker's 'Preface' to 'Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories' (1914)Appendix II: 'The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh' (1890) and 'The Lambton Worm' (1890)Notes

Two years after his death in 1912, Bram Stoker's widow published this collection of her late husband's short fiction. "Dracula's Guest" may or may not be the excised first chapter of Dracula, but according to Mrs. Stoker that was the case. Other classic tales like "The Judge's House," "The Burial of the Rats" and "The Squaw" are included here along with Stoker's second best known novel, "The Lair of the White Worm." This collection is good but not great. There's nothing Dracula-worthy here, but

Published in 1914, “Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories” is a short story collection comprising of nine different stories, written by the Bram Stoker. Although some of these stories were pre-published, the book was published from stories that his wife recovered after his death.As with all my short story collection reviews, I rate each story individually and then calculate the average rating as the total rating for the book. But, I warn you…. All of the reviews for each individual story inclu...

3.25 starsThese stories were hit or miss with me.

I took a look at this one although I only needed to read half of it. I'm already familiar with DRACULA'S GUEST (a neat side story to Stoker's classic novel), THE JUDGE'S HOUSE (a slow-burning ghost story) and THE SQUAW (decent feline horror) from their much-anthologised appearances, and I have THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM elsewhere so I didn't need to read that either. However, this collection does boast a nice academic introduction which goes into greater or lesser depth about all of the stories

So this is an interesting hodgepodge - a proto-Dracula short story (the Dracula's Guest of the title), a collection of short stories (my faves were The Squaw, The Judge's House, and The Coming of Abel Behenna), and Stoker's final work - and, incidentally, the whole reason I bought this particular volume - The Lair of the White Worm. Of this last story (written in the insanely short time of 3 months) I will say only two things:1. The plot is Grade A Bonkerdom, can't wait to see what the film adap...

These (more or less) short stories, some of which are not bad, vary in quality. All of them, however, stay well below the example set by Stokers widely known "Dracula" novel. By far the longest of them, "The Lair of the White Worm" suffers from quite a number of plot holes, poorly conveyed parts of the story and unnecessary repititions. It felt like the first version you'd hand to your editor, and he'd say: 'Well, dear Bram, this could be a splendid story. If we cut at least one third of the tex...

In my view these stories vary in quality, the Dracula one being the least interesting, but if you like Poe, you may well like these. I certainly did, and am considering the possibility of reading another full-length novel of Stoker's.

Honestly, I didn't like Dracula enough to try and seek out more stuff by Stoker. I'm glad I finally read it, but it was kind of a dull book overall.However, when this audiobook of short stories popped up as a free borrow from Hoopla, I decided to take advantage of it. Because why not? Dracula's Guest4 starsUnbelievably, this was a scene cut from Dracula. I say unbelievably because this one scene was far more interesting than ANYTHING in the book. Granted, it was a wacky scene and far too much of...

Wow. While everyone was busy reading Poe and Lovecraft these short stories have been gathering dust. Who knew Stoker had a wealth of twisted little short stories in addition to his genre-spawning novel? I certainly didn't but I am glad I discovered them. I already plan to revisit these stories from time to time. Read these!

I read this as I thought it was about Dracula. In fact it is a collection of short horror stories which are entertaining and gothically horrific. The first story was apparently going to be the first chapter of the original Dracula story but was dropped by the publisher as not being relevant. It is about an unidentified traveller, presumably Jonathan Harken, in Bavaria escaping from wolves and someone coming our of their grave and would have made a more enigmatic beginning to the original novel.

A fine collection of Bram Stoker's lesser known short fiction, this collection also includes his frustrating novel "The Lair of the White Worm"