The Burial of the Rats
A Dream of Red Hands
Crooken Sands




PREFACE


A few months before the lamented death of my husband--I might say even
as the shadow of death was over him--he planned three series of short
stories for publication, and the present volume is one of them. To his
original list of stories in this book, I have added an hitherto
unpublished episode from _Dracula_. It was originally excised owing to
the length of the book, and may prove of interest to the many readers of
what is considered my husband's most remarkable work. The other stories
have already been published in English and American periodicals. Had my
husband lived longer, he might have seen fit to revise this work, which
is mainly from the earlier years of his strenuous life. But, as fate has
entrusted to me the issuing of it, I consider it fitting and proper to
let it go forth practically as it was left by him.

FLORENCE BRAM STOKER




Dracula's Guest