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The third impression of this posthumous collection of Bram Stoker's stories, including the deleted original first chapter of 'Dracula'. The third impression of the first edition of this collection, published in the same year as the first edition.'Dracula's Guest' was initially the first chapter of Stoker's 1897 novel, but was deleted prior to publication at the publisher's recommendation, as it was viewed as superfluous to the tale.This work contains eight further short stories alongside the titular tale: 'A Dream of Red Hands', 'The Burial of the Rats', 'The Judge's House', 'The Squaw', 'The Secret of the Growing Gold', 'A Gipsy Prophecy', 'The Coming of Abel Behenna', and 'Crooken Sands'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to cloth of back strip. Boards bright. Head of rear joint starting, with board holding firm. Spotting to fore edge of text block. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with instances of spotting throughout. Very Good.

Dracula's Guest is a horror short story by Bram Stoker, which was published posthumously in 1914. It is believed to be an excised chapter from the original Dracula manuscript.