Dracula's Guest Illustrated

If you have read Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, you will probably recognize the writing style and tone of this short story ''Dracula's Guest.'' In fact, the story is an excerpt from the novel Dracula that was deleted by Stoker's publisher in order to shorten the original manuscript. The story was easily left out without changing the plot of the novel. It does, however, give a bit of atmospheric foreshadowing of what Dracula's house is like once Jonathan (one of the novel's protagonists) arrives there. ''Dracula's Guest'' was published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death. As the story is told in first person and the narrator is never actually named, there is no direct connection between this story and Stoker's novel.