Ergebnis für "Fabelhafte Wesen Dracula, Alice, Superman und andere literarische Freunde" in Literatur & Belletristik

The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.

Ob Sindbad der Seefahrer, Superman, Don Juan oder Alice im Wunderland: Literarische Heldinnen und Helden haben zahlreiche Abenteuer zu bestehen, die sie klug und welterfahren machen. Sie werden damit zu inspirierenden Begleiter:innen, die uns immer wieder neue Antworten geben auf die großen Fragen des Lebens. Dank Alberto Manguel entdecken wir die Weltliteratur neu.

In 1897, at the age of 50, Bram Stoker was touring manager to the actor Henry Irving and was enjoying a modest success as a journalist and writer. Publication in that year of Dracula was to bring him international and lasting fame.

With the versatile voice talent of William Gaminara, acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London. It is 1888, and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel tells the story of vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and British spy Charles Beauregard as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders.

Eine knochige Klaue fuhr aus der nachtschwarzen Gruft heraus. Blitzschnell umfasste sie mein Handgelenk und drückte es herunter. Der Lauf der Beretta zeigte in die dunkle Tiefe. Ein höhnisches Kichern drang an meine Ohren. Dann ein heftiger Ruck, und ich wurde nach vorn gerissen, direkt in den Abgrund hinein. Ich schrie.

In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula – a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead – a vampire that drinks the blood of living people.