calalo's review against another edition
3.0
Si no fuera una potencial extensión de la obra original, quedaría enterrado como un vampiro regular de un pueblito europeo bajo una tumba cubierta por piedras del olvido. Con otro estilo ajeno al epistolar, transcurre como una historia de terror corriente que se hace efectiva en la ambientación qmostrando pistas para expandir el universo de Dracul. El relato vigoriza su entretenimiento con infinitas posiblidades provenientes de la cabeza de un lector que ya conoce la novela, ¿la vampiresa es acaso un ser que rivaliza en rango y poder con el tio Draky? ¿Están los no vivos regidos por territorios? ¿Está Harker siendo protegido por un interes especifico del conde? No lo sabremos de Stoker, pero es una buena oportunidad para poner en funcionamiento el poder de la imaginación.
rhexis's review against another edition
4.0
Something of a strange tale of an unnamed man who goes for a walk, almost freezes to death in a storm, and is saved by a wolf. It's only once you realise that the man is Jonathan Harker that the implications of this text are realised.
afriendoftheabc's review against another edition
3.25
Dracula's Guest: 4
The Judge's House: 3.5
The Squaw: 2.5
The Secret of the Growing Gold: 3.5
The Gipsy Prophecy: 3
The Coming of Abel Behenna: 3.5
The Burial of the Rats: 3.5
A Dream of Red Hands: 3.75
Crooken Sands: 3
The Judge's House: 3.5
The Squaw: 2.5
The Secret of the Growing Gold: 3.5
The Gipsy Prophecy: 3
The Coming of Abel Behenna: 3.5
The Burial of the Rats: 3.5
A Dream of Red Hands: 3.75
Crooken Sands: 3
bethanlcollins's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
oldwindways's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
heffalumpwoozle's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
cdelorenzo's review against another edition
3.0
"La Walpurgis-Nacht no afecta a los ingleses".
"Con la salida del sol estaba recuperando el valor".
"Había algo tan extraño en todo aquello, tan inquietante e imposible de concebir, que me sentí como si fuerzas desconocidas jugaran conmigo, idea que bastó para paralizarme".
"Con la salida del sol estaba recuperando el valor".
"Había algo tan extraño en todo aquello, tan inquietante e imposible de concebir, que me sentí como si fuerzas desconocidas jugaran conmigo, idea que bastó para paralizarme".
francamill's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
I read this before starting to read Dracula, so I don't feel I can properly rate it. It was very short, though. Hopefully in retrospect I can see that it made a lot of sense with the rest of the book and I can see value in reading this before getting into Dracula.
aftanith's review against another edition
3.0
I can definitely see why this wasn't included in the published version of Dracula. While it's a vampire tale that involves vampires operating under the same rules as presented in Dracula, its narrative has nothing to do with that story and would only have detracted from it if included. As a standalone, it's a fairly straightforward early vampire story, focusing on vampires as the "unholy" living dead--two elements that are made more interesting by their absence in most modern vampire fiction. (It's possible I'm just not reading/watching the right vampire fiction, but vampires seem to have become secular monsters of ever-decreasing association with religious symbols like crosses and holy water, as well as being either post-human creatures transformed by magic or infection or another species of being entirely. Some vampires don't even "rise from the grave" in any capacity anymore, their unlife being a matter of transformation rather than subverted resurrection.)
Dracula's Guest is a story worth reading for anyone who gives a damn about early vampire fiction, but don't be tricked into thinking that it's a vital part of the experience of Dracula. If not for the title and a brief namedrop at the end, it's an entirely separate narrative--but interesting nevertheless.
Dracula's Guest is a story worth reading for anyone who gives a damn about early vampire fiction, but don't be tricked into thinking that it's a vital part of the experience of Dracula. If not for the title and a brief namedrop at the end, it's an entirely separate narrative--but interesting nevertheless.