Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Mrs. Trevor: Appears in The Chain of Destiny. She wanted to move into the Scarp because of its beauty. Mrs. Trevor is known for her incredibly good tastes in art and home.
• Mr. Charley Trevor: Appears in The Chain of Destiny. The purchaser of the house for his wife, Mrs. Trevor. A very wealthy man.
• Master Standford Frank: Appears in The Chain of Destiny as the narrator. Mr. and Mrs. Trevor treat him like the son they never had.
• Tommy Santon: Appears in The Dualitists, a young boy with destructive tendencies. Good friend of Harry Merford as well as a neighbor of the Bubb family.
• Miss Diana Fothering: Appears in The Chain of Destiny as a friend to the Trevors. She is a descendant of the original owner of Strand. Stanford Frank has a crush on her.
• Sarah Trefusis: Appears in The Coming of Abel Behenna as the prettiest girl in Pencastle. Abel and Eric both fancy her.
• Harry Merford: Appears in The Dualitists, a young boy with destructive tendencies. Good friend of Tommy Santon as well as a neighbor of the Bubb family.
• Ephraim Bubb: Appears in The Dualitists as the old man of the Bubb family. Father of the twins, Zerubbabel and Zacariah, and husband of Sophonisba,
• Malcolm Malcolmson: Appears in The Judge's House. He is a student preparing for examinations by going to a town he has never seen.
• Eric Sanson: Appears in The Coming of Abel Behenna as a fair, young, good-looking and prosperous man. A friendly rival of Abel Behenna.
• Dr. Gerald Burleigh: Appears in A Gipsy Prophecy as a friend to the Considines. He was an old college chum of Joshua's.
• Malcolmson: Add a description of this character.
• Sarah
• Aurora: The bride of the narrator of The Crystal Cup
• Mr. Arthur Fernlee Markam: Appears in Crooken Sands as a London merchant who spends his summers in Scotland at The Red House.
• Eric
• Mrs. Mary Considine: Appears in A Gipsy Prophecy as the wife of Joshua Considine.
• Mr. Joshua Considine: Appears in A Gipsy Prophecy as the husband of Mary Considine.
• Abel Behenna: Appears in The Coming of Abel Behenna as a dark, young, good-looking, and prosperous. He is friendly rivals with Eric Sanson.
• Joshua
• Geoffrey
• Elias P. Hutcheson: Appears in The Squaw as the American traveling companion to the married couple.
• Mr. Markam
• Gerald
• Mrs. Witham: Appears in The Judge's House. She is the landlady of "The Good Traveller" who is concerned about Malcolm.
• Geoffrey Brent: Appears in The Secret of the Growing Gold as the head of the Brent family who is handsome and frequently spends his time away from home.
• Aunt Deborah Howard: Appears in The Chain of Destiny as the aunt of Diana Fothering. She is familiar with the Kirk's Curse.
• Margaret Delandre: Appears in The Secret of the Growing Gold as a woman of the yeoman/agriculture class. She is the sister of Wykham Delandre. Becomes a companion to Geoffrey Brent.
• Mrs. Brent: Appears in The Secret of the Growing Gold as the wife of Geoffrey Brent. She is from another country and known for her kindness.
• Jacob Settle: Appears in A Dream of Red Hands. He is a humble worker who is well trusted and helps those he can.
• Mary
• Johann: The driver in Dracula's Guest
• Amelia: Appears in The Squaw as the wife of the narrator.
• Saft Tammie: Appears in Crooken Sands as an odd sort of old mailman who foretells doom.
• Mrs. Dempster: Appears in The Judge's House. She is the charwoman (cleaner) of Malcolm's living quarters. She does not believe in bogies.
• Hutcheson
• Pierre: Appears in The Burial of the Rats as one of the old men in the City of Dust
• Wykham Delandre: Appears in the Secret of the Growing Gold as the brother of Margaret Delandre. A drunken man who wants revenge.
• Dr. Thornhill: Appears in The Judge's House. He is a friend of Mrs. Witham.

Quotes edit see section history

• “The dead travel fast”

  Dracula's Guest - Tombstone

• “Oh Time, Time! maker and destroyer of men's fortunes, why hasten so fast for others while thou laggest so slowly for me?”

  The Crystal Cup - Narrator

• “To be popular with her own sex is the touchstone of a woman's worth”

  The Chain of Destiny - Master Frank

• “Too late hours and too hard work on the brain isn't good for any man!”

  The Judge's House - Mrs. Witham

• “Rats is bogies and bogies is rats.”

  The Judge's House - Mrs. Dempster

• “Guess, ma'am, nothin's too terrible to the explorin' mind”

  The Squaw - Elias P. Hutcheson

• “Fighting for its own sake is found by a certain class of persons, all the world over, to be a matter of absorbing interest, and there is no reason to believe that domestic conditions minimalize its potency.”

  The Secret of the Growing Gold - Narrator

• “We commonplace mortals want something definite. The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.”

  A Gipsy Prophecy - Joshua Considine

• “Uneasiness is an instinct and means warning. The psychic faculties are often the sentries of the intellect, and when they sound alarm the reason begins to act, although perhaps not consciously.”

  The Burial of the Rats - narrator

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Paris: The location of The Burial of Rats. If they are not in Paris, they are around Paris.
• London: Mentioned in The Burial of Rats by the narrator. It is the narrator's home town in which he wishes to return to his love, Alice.
• England: The beginning location of Crooken Sands.
• Scarp: The location of the house in The Chain of Destiny
• Flagstaff Rock: Appears in The Coming of Abel Behenna. The spot in which Abel and Eric flip a coin for Sarah.
• Bristol: Appears in The Coming of Abel Behenna. The port at which Abel leaves Pencastle to make his fortune.
• Scotland: The majority of the location in Crooken Sands.
• Benchurch: The market town in which The Judge's House takes place
• Nurnberg: Setting for The Squaw:The Burg - seated on a rock dominating Nurnberg. It is filled with tea gardens and orchards.Torture Tower - next to the Burg. It contains various torture implements
• Brent's Rock: Appears in The Secret of the Growing Gold. It is the ancestral home of the Brent Family.
• Dander's Croft: Appears in The Secret of the Growing Gold. It is the ancestral home of the Delandre family.
• Pencastle: Appears in The Coming of Abel Behenna. It is a Cornish port.
• England: England

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• Walpurgisnacht: Occurs around April 30th and tends to coincide with the pagan holiday of Beltane. It is very much like Halloween in that the boundary between our world and the spirit world decreases. It was believed you could communicate with otherworldly spirits and ghosts on this night. Bonfires are frequently lit to protect against evil spirits.In Dracula's Guest, they specifically focus on this aspect: the devil goes abroad on Walpurgisnacht , when graves open to release the dead.
• Obdurate: Stubborn
• Banns: Announcement of intention to wed. Made my the pastor in Church.
• Accede: To agree to a demand
• Chiffonier: High, narrow chest of drawers. It can also be used to refer to the people who make them.
• Agglomeration: A jumbled group of many different things
• Foetid: Smells of decay and rotting
• Cordon: A line of people or military troops
• Catamount: Refers to a medium-sized feline like a puma or lynx
• Cynosure: Something that grabs the eyes by its brilliance or appearance
• Panoply: Full ceremonial attire
• Serried: Pressed together
• Attenuated: To weaken or reduce

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Wolves: Creatures associated with Dracula
• Crossroads: Where suicides are buried. Suicides could not be buried in the sacred ground of the church because it was an abomination to commit suicide.
• Rats: There are two kinds of rats in The Judge's House:"Great rat with baleful eyes" - a large rat with malevolent intentions. Scares the other rats.The other rats - companions to Malcolm
• Alarm Bell: Appears in The Judge's House. Allegedly the rope which the hangman used on all the judge's victims.
• Red hands: Guilt

Series & Lists edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Bram Stoker (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Paulo Ramos (Translator)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 823.0873808

Notes for Parents edit see section history

At the earliest, I would recommend this book for young adults. Some of the tales contain very morbid details that could make an adult's face turn green. Other tales would appeal greatly to young adults.

Subjects edit see section history

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