Celebrate Stoker's 165th Birthday With These Reads
Google is celebrating Bram Stoker's 165th birthday with a doodle featuring the infamous count and his brides facing off against Harker and his band of merry vampire-hunters. Stoker is credited with creating the archetype of the vampire we all know and love--the blood-sucking aristocrat with a snazzy cape and Transylvanian accent-- but his other works, without the larger than life Count, are often overlooked. So get stoked and discover a new side of Stoker with these reading recommendations: Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914) Published posthumously, this collection of Stoker short stories capitalized on the success of Stoker's novel Dracula . The story that makes this collection worth reading is the titular "Dracula's Guest." Intended to be the original first chapter of Dracula , it follows an unnamed Englishman (assumed to be Jonathan Harker) on his way to Dracula's castle when he makes a stop at a local graveyard. There he discovers th