Reviews

Bram Stoker: The Burial of the Rats-Original Edition(Annotated) by Bram Stoker

nadiamer's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

It was slow most of the time, the chase however was tense but I feel as though I didn’t get any interesting story from this. 

hades9stages's review against another edition

2.0

slow and pretty underwhelming… but i appreciate the overall idea of what the story could’ve been

taliesin_hastings's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

mollietherose's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

3.0

zeallygreen's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

kevgm's review against another edition

4.0

Having read a couple other of Stoker's book I started this book expecting to find myself reading about something misterious and paranormal. The beginning of the book is kinda slow and does not gives many clues about where's the story heading to, but as I continued reading, and to my surprise, found out, that my expectations about this had been completely wrong, I could only feel thrilled about it. And from that point and so on, it's a very exciting reading experience.

countessjess's review against another edition

4.0

This book has pretty much everything I want to see in a short horror story. That creepy atmosphere is there (who knew Paris was so spooky?), and that slow building of suspense that is worth it in the end. This was particularly refreshing after last reading from Stoker "The Lair of the White Worm" - this book didn't have any racism, which was a relief. A quick little read that is worth your time.

milena84's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

1.0

What is this. Read it for school and didn’t like it. Was he insane?

melisaesra13's review against another edition

2.0

I think I prefer “The Sqaw”, at least that one had more action than this… Thing…
I expected this to be some kind of terrifying story about rats and stuff like that, but got an extremley boring story. There were some parts I enjoyed, I really like Bram Stoker’s writing, but I wouldn’t really recommend this to anyone, especially not people who want to get into Bram Stoker. He has far better works, and among the short stories, “The Secret Of The Growing Gold” is muuuch better, I like that short story more and more as the days go by.
What a dissapointment…

glenn_blake's review against another edition

3.0

Not one of Stoker's best stories. There was mounting tension throughout, but the chase seemed to go on for too long, even for a short story.