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Dracula's Guest
by Bram Stoker
I can definitely see why this wasn't included in the published version of Dracula. While it's a vampire tale that involves vampires operating under the same rules as presented in Dracula, its narrative has nothing to do with that story and would only have detracted from it if included. As a standalone, it's a fairly straightforward early vampire story, focusing on vampires as the "unholy" living dead--two elements that are made more interesting by their absence in most modern vampire fiction. (It's possible I'm just not reading/watching the right vampire fiction, but vampires seem to have become secular monsters of ever-decreasing association with religious symbols like crosses and holy water, as well as being either post-human creatures transformed by magic or infection or another species of being entirely. Some vampires don't even "rise from the grave" in any capacity anymore, their unlife being a matter of transformation rather than subverted resurrection.)
Dracula's Guest is a story worth reading for anyone who gives a damn about early vampire fiction, but don't be tricked into thinking that it's a vital part of the experience of Dracula. If not for the title and a brief namedrop at the end, it's an entirely separate narrative--but interesting nevertheless.
Dracula's Guest is a story worth reading for anyone who gives a damn about early vampire fiction, but don't be tricked into thinking that it's a vital part of the experience of Dracula. If not for the title and a brief namedrop at the end, it's an entirely separate narrative--but interesting nevertheless.