The Lady of the Shroud () is one of Stoker’s last works and its claim to fame is that in it he appears to be reverting to his successful supernatural, vampiric roots. Such really isn’t the case, however. There are some similarities to The Lady of the Shroud and Stoker’s earlier masterpiece.4/5(19). The Lady of the Shroud: A Vampire Tale – Bram Stoker's Horror Classic (Kindle Edition) Published April 25th by e-artnow Kindle Edition, pagesCited by: The spine-chilling The Lair of the White Worm features a monstrous worm secreted for thousands of years in a bottomless well and able to metamorphose into a seductive woman of a reptilian beauty who survives on her victim's life blood. The novel contains some of /5.
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (November 8, Ap) was an Irish author, best known today for his Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Stoker was born on 8 November at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Lady of the Shroud: A Vampire Tale - Bram Stoker's Horror Classic by Bram Stoker (Paperback, ) at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products! After Irving died, Stoker published Reminiscences of Henry Irving () and continued to produce fiction, including The Lady of the Shroud (), a Frankensteinian story of reanimation, and his second most popular work Lair of the White Worm (also called The Garden of Evil, ), a tale of ancient evil.
In Bram Stoker set out to recreate the success of Dracula with another novel about a vampire, The Lady of the Shroud. However, this time the book performed a narrative and generic volte-face in which the seeming vampire was revealed to be in fact a living girl reduced to sleeping in a coffin for political rather than supernatural reasons. Hello, Sign in. Account Lists Returns Orders. Cart. One wet night, he is visited in his room in the castle by a pale woman wearing a wet shroud, seeking warmth. He lets her dry herself before his fire, and she flees before morning. She visits several more times, all at night, and they hardly speak, but he falls in love with her, despite thinking she is a vampire.
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