https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/bram-stoker/dracula

Another free book, check your local public domain laws to verify. Enjoy!

“Dracula is one of the most famous horror novels, responsible not just for introducing the eponymous Count Dracula, but for laying the foundations for many of the common tropes we see in modern horror fiction.”

  • General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    By the by, let me share my fav bit of Dracula trivia.

    Bram Stoker’s Dracula was ostensibly translated into Icelandic in 1901. Fast-forward over 100 years…

    In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel De Roos first noticed that the Icelandic version of Dracula was in fact not a translation, but was rather a very different novel from Stoker’s version.[3] In 2017, De Roos translated Makt Myrkranna into English under the title Powers of Darkness The Lost Version of Dracula.[3] The discovery of the differences between the novels sparked much debate with three theories being offered:

    • Valdimar changed the story of Dracula as he translated it into Icelandic.[3]

    • Stoker provided Valdimar with a first draft of Dracula that he chose not to use for the version that was published in 1897. Supporting the “first draft theory” is the fact that Stoker’s widow had an obsession for suing people who used Dracula without her permission, yet Valdimar was never sued despite the differences between Makt Myrkranna and Dracula.[18]

    • A synthesis view holds that Makt Myrkranna is the result of both Valdimar changing the book and that he used a rejected first draft of Dracula.[3]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Darkness_(Iceland)