"Dracula's Guest" is a short story by Bram Stoker, first published in the posthumous 1914 collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories. Scholars are divided as to whether the story is the excised first chapter of the novel Dracula, an early draft of a chapter of that novel, or was always intended as a separate story. Although some elements of the story were incorporated into the novel, critics point to differences in style and characterisation between the story and the novel. Critics have also noted similarities with Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla. The story concerns an unnamed young Englishman who is visiting Munich on his way to a meeting with Dracula in Transylvania.
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Dracula's Guest was adapted into a 1982 film.
Les Jeux de la comtesse Dolingen de Gratz1982 · film · 114 min · dir. Catherine Binet · IMDb ↗IMDb6.2This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely erotic event in the life of a little girl and the musings of a schizophrenic woman. Also involved is an enigmatic spouse who prepares a surprise for a burglar.
