| From School Library Journal Grade 7-10Students will delight in this melodramatic presentation which is accomplished with echoes, howling wolves, blood-curdling shrieks, and spooky music. The imaginative use of hundreds of sound effects grabs listeners attention as the St. Charles Players, ten actors and actresses, present this abridged version of the 1897 novel. Carefully chosen to represent appropriate ages, sexes, and accents (British, Transylvanian, and Texan), they read briskly and are usually clearly understood. The Count always rolls his rrrs and is enhanced with an echo. Some of the Victorian dialogue is retained, giving a period flavor to the radio-play. It is also accurate in that some of the presentation is made through journal entries and letters. Events happen quickly and dramatically. While certain details, especially motives and reasons behind events, are omitted from the plot, they are not significant since the overall storyline is retained. (However, there is an epilogue hint of future actions from a vampire that is not in the edition of the novel that I consulted.) The popularity of Dracula will ascertain that this will circulate with studentstoo bad the flimsy cardboard case will not survive for many circulations. Teachers could also use the tapes to motivate students to read the book.Claudia Moore, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. From Library Journal The Dover volume collects 14 of Stoker's lesser-known horror stories such as "The Crystal Cup," "The Burial of the Rats," and "A Gipsey Prophecy." Though most of his other fiction has been overshadowed by Dracula, these offer some real chills and warrant reading. While editions of Dracula, which celebrated its centennial in 1997, are legion, Broadview's offers several extras, including a chronology of Stoker's life and appendixes on Transylvania, London, Mental Physiology, Reviews and Interviews, and more. That along with the full text make this one of the best editions available, especially at this remarkable price. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Review "Dracula is highly sensational....An immense amount of energy, a certain degree of imaginative faculty, and many ingenious and gruesome details are there. At times Mr. Stoker almost succeeds in creating the sense of possibility in impossibility."--Atheneum (June 26th, 1897) "The audacity and horror of Dracula are Mr. Stoker's own. A summary of the book would shock and disgust; but we must own that, though here and there in the course of the tale we hurried over things with repulsion, we read nearly the whole with rapt attention."--Bookman (August, 1897) "Mr. Bram Stoker gives us the impression of having deliberately laid himself out in Dracula to eclipse all previous efforts on the domain of the horrible....For all these, and a great many more thrilling details, we must refer our readers to the pages of Mr. Stoker's clever but cadaverous romance."--London Spectator (July 31st, 1897) -- Review--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review `with each volume having an introduction by an acknowledged expert, and exhaustive notes, the World's Classics are surely the most desirable series and, all-round, the best value for money' Oxford Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition. |
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