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I did not know that. Has anyone seen any of those?
Didn't see any of the four adaptations of Jewel of the Seven Stars, though.
Nope :
https://themoviedb.org/person/3122-sammi-davis
Bram Stoker also published a few short story collections.
UNDER THE SUNSET (1881)
contents:
"Under the Sunset"
"The Rose Prince"
"The Invisible Giant"
"The Shadow Builder"
"How 7 Went Mad"
"Lies and Lilies"
"The Castle of the King"
"The Wondrous Child"
SNOWBOUND (1908)
contents:
"The Occasion"
"A Lesson in Pets"
"Coggins's Property"
"The Slim Syrens"
"A New Departure in Art"
"Mick the Devil"
"In Fear of Death"
"At Last"
"Chin Music"
"A Deputy Waiter"
"Work'us"
"A Corner in Dwarfs"
"A Criminal Star"
"A Star Trap" aka DEATH IN THE WINGS
"A Moon-Light Effect"
DRACULA S GUEST AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES (1914)
contents:
"Dracula's Guest"
"The Judge's House"
"The Squaw"
"The Secret of the Growing Gold"
"A Gipsy Prophecy"
"The Coming of Abel Behenna"
"The Burial of the Rats"
"A Dream of Red Hands"
"Crooken Sands"
In addition, there are these uncollected short stories
1872 "The Crystal Cup"
1875 "Buried Treasures"
1875 "The Chain of Destiny"
1885 "Our New House"
1886 "The Dualitists"
1893 "Old Hoggen: A Mystery"
1894 "The Man from Shorrox'"
1894 "When the Sky Rains Gold"
1894 "The Red Stockade"
1898 "Bengal Roses"
1899 "A Young Widow"
1899 "A Yellow Duster"
1900 "Lucky Escapes of Sir Henry Irving"
1908 "To the Rescue"
1908 "The 'Eroes of the Thames"
1909 "The Way of Peace"
1914 "Greater Love"
Bram Stoker was a good horror writer, but he was not an Oscar Wilde or a Conan Doyle. Heck, he was not the Victorian Stephen King either. He was a civil servant who got fairly successful as a part-time writer. Dracula truly was lightning in a bottle, but Stoker never saw his character becoming the cultural phenomenon he became. If I remember correctly from his interview with Churchill, he was surprised that Churchill remembered Dracula (and loved the novel enough to say it was one of the reasons why he accepted the interview in the first place).
I don't think that's true. She either was mistaken or she made it up. Elizabeth Miller did write about it I believe. Too many discrepancies, too many things that don't add up. It was a draft, not a fully formed chapter excised from the novel.
1885 "One Thing Needful"
1890 "The Member for the Strand"
1892 "The Wrongs of Grosvenor Square"
All first published in papers or magazines, the two latter also in bookform in 2012, in THE FORGOTTEN WRITINGS OF BRAM STOKER, containg fiction, poetry and journalistic pieces.
1872 University of Dublin. College Historical Society. Address
1879 The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland
1886 A Glimpse of America
1906 Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
1910 Famous Impostors
In addition, he wrote several articles, many of his speeches have been preserved, and he had several interviews printed, both by him and with him.
Among the famous people he interviewed, we find Arthur Conan Doyle and Winston Churchill, both in 1907.
Regarding Dracula's Guest, I read somewhere the hypothesis that it may not have been written by Bram Stoker at all but by a continuator, based on his early notes. I don't think this is the case, but I do think there is a fairly good body of evidence that it is an early draft that might have been polished by someone to turn it into a short story. It is an odd piece: as a short story it does not stand on its own very well and the name Dracula seems tacked in without any explanation, yet there are too many discrepancies and omissions to be this excised chapter Stoker’s widow claimed it to be.
Probably excised from an earlier draft, then.
Technically I guess. Discarted altogether from a time when the story was still meant to be set in Austria most likely. So before Bram Stoker even knew about Dracula's name (pretty much all he knew about the historical Dracula was his nickname) and that Count Wampyr was still the name of his villain. It's not impossible that Dracula was added when his widow discovered the papers.
If I'm not mistaken it was meant to be Styria. It's only when he saw that footnote in Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia that he switched to Transylvania.
Interesting article. I loved Marvel's TOMB OF DRACULA when I was a kid, and love that his visage was based on Palance.
I always liked Dracula's look in the comic: that enormous cloak, with the bat ear shaped collar. Or was it supposed to be a hooded cloak? I used to wonder if the blue hued cape was intended to register as black o the comic page, or if the Count was indeed sporting a navy blue cloak.
I've seen color photos of Denholm Elliot's Dracula in which his cloak was a dark blue.
There was already that stupid animated movie.
I'd rather see a faithful adaptation of the novel.
Ugh. That animated movie couldn't even get Gene Colan's Dracula image right.
Jack Palance himself is long gone now, and my personal expectations for a great Marvel film adaptation of TOMB OF DRACULA would be considerably lower.
So, I think a faithful adaptation of the novel would be wonderful. One that embraces Stoker's description of the Count without creative license, his characters and plot.
Something that would make Sir Christopher Lee proud as he himself never got to make the truly faithful version he longed for. In fact he didn't even consider Coppola's film that faithful.
And Lee was right.
And on the french VHS sleeve, Marv Wolfman became Mary Wolfman, and Gene Colan became Jean Colan. I'm still laughing about that. But of course, that was a cheap edition.
By the way, why do they so often mess up Mina and Lucy in adaptations? They make them sisters, they make their role interchangeable (Mina the vampire and Lucy the survivor), etc.
So many versions tamper around with Mina and Lucy. I do like Judi Bowker's Mina, though. I thought she had the right look. For some reason I prefer Mina a blonde and Lucy a brunette.
Me too. Bowker's Mina looked both pure yet smart, just as the character was in the novel. The old BBC adaptation is very flawed, makes many mistakes, but they got a lot of things right.