Bram Stoker

Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker

"Dracula's Guest" (also published as "Dracula's Curse," "Dracula's Daughter," "The Dream in the Dead House" and "Walpurgis Night") is a short horror story by the Irish author Bram Stoker. It was first published in 1914, some two years after Stoker's death, It is widely believed that "Dracula's Guest" is actually the deleted first chapter from the original Dracula manuscript, which the publisher felt was superfluous to the story. The story's narrator and protagonist is an unnamed Englishman[1] who is spending some time in Munich, Germany before traveling on to Transylvania as the guest of Count Dracula. Ignoring the warnings of a German coachman, the Englishman decides to go off on his own in the direction of a long-deserted village. The coachman says that the place is "unholy" and that it was abandoned because the dead did not stay truly dead there.