Dracula's Guest

Bram Stoker

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A young Englishman ignores his coachman's warnings on Walpurgis Night and walks alone into a snowstorm above a village that no one will name. Stoker's deleted first chapter of Dracula stands on its own as a tomb-haunted prelude to the novel that followed.

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