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--Original Crypto Fiction #120 [1]

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."

£

elsf Bram Stoker 650 (219)

Novels

 g  Dracula (1897); abridged 1901 by Stoker 
 g  The Mystery of the Sea (1902)
 g  The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903, revised 1912)
 g  The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
 g  The Lair of the White Worm (1911); issued 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)


Dracula

http://www.bramstoker.org/novels/05dracula.html

serial Charlotte NC weekly from 1899-07-16
abridged 1901

WorldCat

2019-05-06 (dracula) >2000 records "Newest first" all of #309-403 (97) as year 2012 !

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]"


1995 Project Gutenberg 345 [no Notes]
2014 Project Gutenberg 45839 "Notes: ... reproduction of the original 1897 edition with all modern material removed"
2012 Constable imprint
tp
ebook


HDL

1897 Dracula (full view only Modern Library as 1897)
c1897 Dracula --[1983] Modern Library [2] p417, [418] Note

LC (219 hits; books by Stoker from #74)

Dracula LC#82-153
Annotated
Essential
Illustrated
New Annotated

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


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)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1780332416/isfdb-21
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1780332416
tp
ebook --nidb 9781780335155 o[3] 160pp ebook ; o[4] 562pp ebook with Summary


The Mystery of the Sea

1902 The Mystery of the Sea T176356 T Fo[5](53)

--User talk:Rtrace#The Mystery of the Sea

LOHm$i 1902us Doubleday, Page
BOHm£i 1902uk Heinemann
O 1903
O£ 1913 Rider --now Tuck as 508 pp
2013 Project Gutenberg 42455

HDL

1902 (3)
1903 Leipzig HDL

LC

Mystery of the Sea LC#189-93 --1902 13 97 2007 (and?)
1902 Doubleday, Page https://lccn.loc.gov/02008118
1913 https://lccn.loc.gov/18011996
1997 https://lccn.loc.gov/97175669 --at HDL Gloucestershire : Sutton Pub., c1997
2007 https://lccn.loc.gov/2007031339

EoF JC "a supernatural fiction in which a man's Talent (precognition or second sight) fails to enable him to regain a lost treasure"


Library binding at same price [6] 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."; [7] SF Chronicle -04-26 p7 (brief, two cipher); N-Y Trib -06-21 p8 (12mo, 498pp) (no cipher)

UK reviews

earliest, ample (no price) [8] The Scotsman -07-24 p2, [9] The Irish Times -07-25 p7
more reviews [10] The Spectator -08-16 p230, [11] The Athenaeum -08-16 p216, [12] The Speaker -08-16 p538, [13] Saturday Review -09-06 p303 "promise of the supernatural ... is not sustained. ... less sensational "


The Jewel of Seven Stars

1904 The Jewel of Seven Stars T6470 Fo[14](117)

(1902/1903 copyright deposits by Doubleday, Page; not published)
O£. 1903 Heinemann
LOm$i 1904 Harper
1904 Caldwell (?)
1912 Rider --revised?
2003 Gutenberg 3781

HDL

(2)
(date unknown) Caldwell p1-[311]; [312] "The Country Life Press // Garden City, N. Y."
Harper 1904-02 (no cover, one 1904, one undated) p1-[311]

LC

Jewel of [the] Seven Stars LC#168-73 --(1902 03 copyright deposits) 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."


The Lady of the Shroud

1909 The Lady of the Shroud T14559 Fo[15](78)

m$ic 1966 Paperback, The Garden of Evil --PV Don Erikson
m$ic 1969 Paperback, The Garden of Evil --PV Don Erikson
2002 Project Gutenberg 3095

HDL

--not found 2019-05-11

LC

Lady of the Shroud LC#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"


The Lair of the White Worm

1911 The Lair of the White Worm T14558 Fo[16](124)

O.£i 1911 Rider
O£. 1925 Foulsham (abridged)
1998 Project Gutenberg 1188

HDL

[17]
White Worm 1960 Arrow
Garden of Evil 1966 Paperback Library (which published other Jarrolds 1966)
Garden of Evil 1990? 0884111334

LC

Lair of the W.W. LC#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)."


Collections

Under the Sunset

1882 Under the Sunset T173506 T Fo[18](32)

BO.£ 1882[1881] 1st ed./printing
1882 2nd ed o[6694347] o[64447373] --perhaps also 1881?
1978 Newcastle #17 --PV Rtrace
https://lccn.loc.gov/78113034 "1st American ed."; "[5] leaves of plates" only; William ; o[930548688]
1980 Borgo https://lccn.loc.gov/80019564 --reprint of Newcastle #17
d$i 2002 Wildside (Doylestown PA) o[181766355] o[4956384]
2005 Large Print ed.
Bd$i us Thorndike --check WorldCat o[979316951] as 194pp; o[57344213] as "nine stories" w list of 8
nidb-- Chivers BL 013256097 o[491477205] o[865227310]

LC

Under the Sunset LC#206-07 --1978 80 (above)

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."


Snowbound

1908 Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party T176380


Dracula's Guest

1914 Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories T38956 Fo[19](27)

2006 Project Gutenberg 10150

HDL

1922 Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories [20]

LC

Dracula's Guest LC#154-56 --1937 66 74 (chapbooks?)
Dracula's Guest [and ...]


2016-0915

Dracula's Guest

Publisher search 'Kegan' [21]

Broadway House 1914 [22]

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)


(later)

Midnight Tales (1990) T176355 Fo[23](15)

LC

Midnight Tales


Non-genre

LC

? Miss Betty LC#188-89 --1974 2009 --not mentioned at SFE3/EoF --q
? 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


Wikipedia list of works (ng=non-genre at ISFDB; g=genre; -- nidb) (# = no mention SFE/EoF)

Novels [8 of 13 that Wikipedia lists]
 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)
#ng Miss Betty (1898) --T 
#ng  The Man (1905); (a.k.a. The Gates of Life)
#ng  Lady Athlyne (1908)

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) 


HDL

1898 Miss Betty
1909 The Snake's Pass [24] Collier "New and cheaper ed."


WorldCat top 20

Snake Fo[25](32) "A novel about the troubled romance between an English landlord and an untutored Celtic peasant girl, and the contemporary political climate in Ireland"
The Man Fo[26](39)


1898 Miss Betty T176395

2000
2010


1905 The Man

2001 Project Gutenberg 2520


Famous Impostors

Non-fiction (3)

#ng  Famous Impostors (1910) T176370 --check newspapers
H. 1910uk Sidgwick & J BL 003512095
Hm 1910us Sturgis & W https://lccn.loc.gov/10029528
1968 Sidgwick & Jackson https://lccn.loc.gov/79371435
2016 Project Gutenberg 51391