When a straightforward young Englishman accompanies a customer to Transylvania and encounters the mysterious Count Dracula, the most well-known vampire tale in history starts. When Dracula reveals his actual self, he takes a ship towards England, where dreadful things start to happen to the inhabitants of London…. Book Excerpt The snow-covered top of the big … Read more
Book Excerpt “A shroud may work as the coffin’s pall, I suppose. My blood rushes through my veins with immense power, and my long-restrained youth suddenly explodes into active activity, like an eruption in a volcano that erupts once every hundred years and then remains dormant. I feel as though life is rising within me … Read more
Mrs. Velkanon Alberic’s portrayal by Arthur B. River can be seen in the films “The Haunted and The Hunters,” “The Silent Omen,” “Banishes the Man Who Wants to Two Women,” “Ghost Stories of Phantom Rickshaw,” “The Rival Ghosts,” “The Damned Thing,” “The Intervalled American Ghost,” and “Assassin of The American Ghost.” Book Excerpt Arthur B. … Read more
“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.” – Rudyard Kipling The half-Indian opium in India fascinates Kim, a youngster who was raised as an orphan by a British soldier and also goes by the name Kimball O’Hara. While playing freely on the streets of Lahore as a boy, he becomes … Read more
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”- John Buchan “I got the first hint in an inn on the Achensee in Tyrol. That set me inquiring, and I collected my other clues in a fur-shop in the Galician quarter of Buda, … Read more
“I’ll say, a strange man is a marvel, with his mighty talk; but what’s a squabble in your back yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there’s a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed.” – J. M. Synge Book Excerpt MAURYA. I seen Michael himself. CATHLEEN. Speaking … Read more
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell the truth.” – Oscar Wilde Book Excerpt SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. Yes. But the Suez Canal was a very great and splendid undertaking. It gave us our direct route to India. It had imperial value. It was … Read more
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. – John Dryden Book Excerpt Three types of comedy appeared in England in the time of Dryden— the comedy of humors, the comedy of intrigue, and the comedy of manners—and in all he did work that classed him with the … Read more
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. – William Shakespeare DUNCAN. Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not Those in commission yet return’d? MALCOLM. My liege, They are not yet come back. But I have spoke With one that saw him die, who did … Read more
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. – William Shakespeare As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow’st, In one of thine, from that which thou departest, And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow’st, Thou mayst call thine, when thou from youth … Read more