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$2 eBook Deal: Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories
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The Kindle eBook deal of the day over at Amazon today is Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories, an anthology of Victorian-era vampire stories edited by Michael Sims, for only $1.99 (that’s down from the usual digital price of $8.99 and 88% off the list price of $17.00).

Note – this deal is valid only for today, Thursday, February 16, 2012, until 11:59pm PST.

If you’d like to purchase a physical copy of Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories, the book is also available in paperback for $6.80.

Per Amazon:

Before Twilight and True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker’s legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.

Michael Sims brings together the very best vampire stories of the Victorian era-from England, America, France, Germany, Transylvania, and even Japan-into a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Oval Portrait” and Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” to Guy de Maupassant’s “The Horla” and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne.” Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and rounds out the collection with Stoker’s own “Dracula’s Guest”-a chapter omitted from his landmark novel.

Vampires captivated the Victorians, as Sims reveals in his insightful introduction: In 1867, Karl Marx described capitalism as “dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor”; while in 1888 a London newspaper invoked vampires in trying to explain Jack the Ripper’s predations. At a time when vampires have been re-created in a modern context, Dracula’s Guest will remind readers young, old, and in between of why the undead won’t let go of our imagination.

NOTE – you don’t actually need a Kindle device to read these ebooks. Books can be read on a Kindle or one of Amazon’s free reading apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows PC, Mac, Blackberry, and Windows Phone 7. Also, you can gift Kindle books and set your gift to be delivered whenever you want to anyone with an email address.

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