User:Pwendt/People/Bram Stoker
created 2019-05-11 by import from top page mainly
elsf Bram Stoker 650 (219)
Wikipedia list of works (ng=non-genre at ISFDB; g=genre; -- nidb) (# = no mention SFE/EoF)
Novels [13, all linked]
ng The Primrose Path (1875)
ng? The Snake's Pass (1890)
#-- Seven Golden Buttons (1891) [no novel article]
#-- The Watter's Mou' (1895)
#ng The Shoulder of Shasta (1895)
g Dracula (1897) --revised 1901 ("cut" per --)
#ng Miss Betty (1898) --T ✓
g The Mystery of the Sea (1902)
g The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903, revised 1912)
#ng The Man (1905); (a.k.a. The Gates of Life)
#ng Lady Athlyne (1908)
g The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
g The Lair of the White Worm (1911); issued in 1966 as The Garden of Evil
Short story collections [3, all linked]
g Under the Sunset (1881) --8 fairy tales for children --T ✓
#g Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908)
g Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914)
Non-fiction (3)
#ng Famous Impostors (1910) T176370
- H. 1910uk Sidgwick & J BL 003512095
- Hm 1910us Sturgis & W https://lccn.loc.gov/10029528
- 1968 Sidgwick & Jackson https://lccn.loc.gov/79371435
LC (219 hits; books by Stoker from #74)
- Dracula #82-153 [excluding Annotated/Essential/Illustrated/New Annotated Dracula)
- Dracula's Guest #154-56 --1937 66 74 (chapbooks?)
- Jewel of [the] Seven Stars #168-73 --1902 03 04 66 96 2009
EoF JC "(1907; rev by another hand 1919), in which the Astral Body of a queen of ancient Egypt attempts to reanimate her mummified body (> Mummies) by taking Possession of a young girl"
SFE3 JE/DRL "Although his fantasies are in the weird and occult fields, his writings do contain sf elements. These, however, are generally treated as products of Magic rather than of science, as in ... The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), in which an Egyptian princess, adept in an ancient science, rests in a form of Suspended Animation."
- Lady of the Shroud #176-78 --1909 66 75
EoF JC "which features a rationalized female vampire, a touch of talents (precognition again), and a hero named Rupert who becomes king of his own Ruritania"
- Lair of the W.W. #179-82 --c1911 25 66 74
EoF JC "(1911; full text ed Richard Dalby 1986), which confusedly evokes the downside of Goddess imagery through the eponymous Shapeshifter which possesses a glamorous lady (or vice versa), and attempts to infect a large cast with its venomous, accursed, erotic allure (> Worm/Wyrm)."
SFE3 JE/DRL "The Lair of the White Worm (1911; cut 1925; vt The Garden of Evil 1966), centres on an antediluvian and malignly intelligent serpent-like Monster obscurely linked to a secretly murderous woman; for the Lamia theme, see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy; this novel was very freely adapted for Ken Russell's film The Lair of the White Worm (1988)."
- ? Miss Betty #188-89 --1974 2009 --not mentioned at SFE3/EoF --q
- Mystery of the Sea #189-93 --1902 13 97 2007 (below)
EoF JC "a supernatural fiction in which a man's Talent (precognition or second sight) fails to enable him to regain a lost treasure"
- ? Snake's Pass --non-genre at ISFDB
SFE3 [JE/DRL] "Although his fantasies are in the weird and occult fields, his writings do contain sf elements. These, however, are generally treated as products of Magic rather than of science, as in The Snake's Pass (1890), a tale featuring a search for the crown of the Western Irish snake king ..." --not mentioned in EoF JC
- Under the Sunset #206-07 --1978 80 (below)
EoF JC "The Fairytales assembled in Under the Sunset (coll 1882) are sinister, though with touches of Allegory that may have made them seem, to the Victorian mind, suitable for children."
Non-genre Novels (ISFDB 2019-05-10/11)
The Primrose Path (1875) --Horror The Snake's Pass (1890)
SFE3 "Although his fantasies are in the weird and occult fields, his writings do contain sf elements. These, however, are generally treated as products of Magic rather than of science, as in The Snake's Pass (1890), a tale featuring a search for the crown of the Western Irish snake king." EoF [JE/DRL]
The Shoulder of Shasta (1895)
Miss Betty (1898)
The Man (1905) also appeared as:
Variant: The Gates of Life (2000)
Lady Athlyne (1908)
WorldCat top 20, ex Dracula
- Snake Fo[1](32) "A novel about the troubled romance between an English landlord and an untutored Celtic peasant girl, and the contemporary political climate in Ireland"
- Mystery Fo[2](53)
- Jewel Fo[3](117)
- Lady Fo[4](78)
- Lair Fo[5](124)
- The Man Fo[6](39)
HDL
- (Dracula --full view only Modern Library as 1897)
- c1897 Dracula --[1983] Modern Library [9] p417, [418] Note
- 1898 Miss Betty
- 1902 The Mystery of the Sea (3) + 1903 Leipzig
- 1904 The jewel of seven stars (2)
- Caldwell p1-[311]; [312] "The Country Life Press // Garden City, N. Y."
- Harper 1904-02 (no cover, one 1904, one undated) p1-[311]
- 1909 The Lady of the Shroud --not found 2019-05-11
- 1909 The Snake's Pass [10] Collier "New and cheaper ed."
- 1911 The Lair of the White Worm T14558 [11]
- 1922 Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories [12]
1882 Under the Sunset T173506 (coll)
- SFE3 John Clute "The Fairytales assembled in Under the Sunset (coll 1882) are sinister, though with touches of Allegory that may have made them seem, to the Victorian mind, suitable for children."
- q-- [1881]\1882 1st ed./printing
- 1882 2nd ed o[6694347] o[64447373] --perhaps also 1881?
- 1978 Newcastle #17 https://lccn.loc.gov/78113034 "1st American ed."; "[5] leaves of plates" only; William
- 1980 Borgo https://lccn.loc.gov/80019564 --reprint of Newcastle #17
- 2005 Large Print ed.
- Bd$i us Thorndike --check WorldCat
- nidb-- Chivers BL 013256097
1898 Miss Betty T176395 --q
- 2000
- 2010
1902 The Mystery of the Sea T176356 --User talk:Rtrace#The Mystery of the Sea
- LOm$i 1902-03us Doubleday, Page ✓
Library binding at same price [13] N-Y Trib 1902-03-26 p10 "They [D,P Co.] have adopted the idea and are going to begin with Mr. Stoker's book, and follow it up with others." Libraries commonly re-bind "in half leather bindings of a stronger sort than the original cloth castings."
- reviews column LCJ -03-29 p5 "recently published" "The clever[est?] ... of the book is the adaptation of the Baconian cipher in furthering the plot and the romance."; DFP -04-12 p11 (cipher); The Outlook -04-19 p980 (5x8 in, 498 pp)(cipher); Phi Inq -04-20 p31 "It is obvious that the author does not believe his own story because he gives a lot of appendices to prove that it is possible."; [14] SF Chronicle -04-26 p7 (brief, two cipher); N-Y Trib -06-21 p8 (12mo, 498pp) (no cipher)
- 1902uk Heinemann --q --NEED library records
- OL7023895M ; 9208378 932839359 (BL 003512116 as 8vo and OCLC 607068127 "viii, 454 pages ; 21 cm" matches the US edition without the Appendix --as LC 02008118 reports for the US edition !)
UK reviews
- earliest, ample (no price) [15] The Scotsman -07-24 p2, [16] The Irish Times -07-25 p7
- more reviews [17] The Spectator -08-16 p230, [18] The Athenaeum -08-16 p216, [19] The Speaker -08-16 p538, [20] Saturday Review -09-06 p303 "promise of the supernatural ... is not sustained. ... less sensational "
(hours later or tomorrow) --check details of UK notices and augment that record as 1st UK ed. --q --summary Appendix A to E at title record
LC
- 1902 Doubleday, Page https://lccn.loc.gov/02008118
- viii,498 "Appendix" [455-98]
- viii,454
- Heinemann HDL x,498
- 1903 Leipzig HDL
- 1913 https://lccn.loc.gov/18011996
- 1997 https://lccn.loc.gov/97175669 --at HDL Gloucestershire : Sutton Pub., c1997
- 2007 https://lccn.loc.gov/2007031339
Appendix, 455
- Appendix A to D, 457-75, on secret writing --Francis Bacon's Bilateral Cipher and some derived ciphers --including that of the encoded messages, page 1 and page 2
- Appendix E, 476-98, "Narrative of Bernardino de Escoban, Knight of the Cross of the Holy See and Grandee of Spain"
"What is the significance of the pages of cipher which once belonged to Don de Escoban? The cipher used is a Bacon biliteral cipher. Appendices to the novel contain an explanation of the Bacon biliteral cipher and of the solution process used. The main purpose of the novel seems to be not the plot, but the exposition of the cipher system and the solution of the cipher messages." --Original Crypto Fiction #120 [21]
- cf. "95. Poe, Edgar Allan. 1843. The Gold-Bug. The Dollar Newspaper.
- "The best and first of the classic cipher stories. Poe uses punctuation symbols as cipher letters in his message. The message is really a puzzle within a monoalphabetic substitution cipher as William Legrand solves the cipher message and unravels the resulting puzzle to find a pirate treasure. The highlight of the story is Poe's detailed description of how to cryptanalyze a monoalphabetic substitution cipher."
- Dracula
2019-05-06 WorldCat (dracula) >2000 records "Newest first" all of #309-403 (97) as year 2012 !
EoF JC "... There have been many omnibus publications of the text, and several separate modern editions of value, including The Annotated Dracula (1975 US) ed Leonard Wolf (1923- ), Dracula (1993) ed Maurice Hindle (1944- ), which is textually the most satisfactory modern edition, and Dracula: Bram Stoker's Text of 1901 (1994)."
--ie, cut 1901 by the author
1897 Dracula T2072 --serial mentioned without bibliog data (dnf in newspapers 1896/99)
- Om£i 1897 Archibald Constable
- O.$i 1899 Doubleday & McClure --"Published Autumn 1899"
- 1901 Constable --"[rev of the above with cuts: Dracula: pb/Nathan]"
check newspapers
- 1896 (dracula) 0 hits
1897/1899 newspapers (dracula constable) --advertisements of numbered "editions"
- 1897 (May to October) dnf mention of edition number
- Second, Third, Fourth (probably all 1897)
- Fifth -0212 to -0806 ... 1899-0401
- Sixth 1899-09-30 The Speaker p.ii; -10-07 Sat Rev p472;
- US not found 2019-05-08 in US newspapers prior to 1899-09 (1896 to 1899) except coverage of/from England from July 1897
- 1901/1902 --dnf new editions
full review N-Y Tribune -1897-11-19?
2012 Constable / Constable & Robinson (21st century imprint, descendant of the 1897 publisher)
- Limited edition (ie, 1st printing)
- tp ✓
- ebook --nidb 9781780335155 o[22] 160pp ebook ; o[23] 562pp ebook with Summary
2016-0915
Bram Stoker 650 (210)
The Lair of the White Worm
at HathiTrust
- White Worm 1960 Arrow
- Garden of Evil 1966 Paperback Library (which published other Jarrolds 1966)
- Garden of Evil 1990? 0884111334
Dracula's Guest
Publisher search 'Kegan' [24]
- Broadway House 1914 [25]
The Scotsman 04-13 Books Received The Observer 04-19 Fiction (Received?) Routledge 1/- Manchester Guardian The Observer 1914-02-22 p5 advertisement by the publisher as "Broadway House Fiction" Red Cloth Library "New Volumes" 1/- Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane, E.C. (no mention of Kegan, Trench, or Routledge)