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    The Secret of the Growing Gold
    The Secret of the Growing Gold
    The Secret of the Growing Gold
    Audiobook32 minutes

    The Secret of the Growing Gold

    Written by Bram Stoker

    Narrated by Victor Garber

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A tale of the terror of revenge from beyond the grave.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudio Holdings
    Release dateJan 1, 2009
    ISBN9781601364890
    The Secret of the Growing Gold
    Author

    Bram Stoker

    Abraham Stoker was born near Dublin in 1847. He was virtually bedridden with an unidentified illness until the age of seven. After graduating from Trinity College, he followed his father into a career as a civil servant in Dublin castle, writing journalism and short stories in his spare time. In 1876 he met the actor Henry Irving and two years later became manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre in London. Through Oscar Wilde's parents, Stoker met his wife Florence Balcombe. He wrote many books of which only Dracula (1897) is widely remembered. He died in 1912.

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    • 3/5
      This is a collection of stories written by Bram Stoker, published throughout his life. It is divided into two sections. The First is a collection of assorted stories, the Second all center on a particular land and have a more fairy tale quality.First Section: Best tales include The Judge's House, The Coming of Abel Behenna, and The Burial of the Rats.Second Section: The only take worth reading was the Invisible Giant. The rest were sacarine, moralist, preachy tales full of nonsense.
    • 3/5
      Firstly I'm not a Stoker fanatic. Dracula's Guest, however gave me the bone marrow I needed from Abraham's mind. I wish I'd read this before the great vampire story. Dracula was not the horror story my macabre mind wanted. Dracula's Guest drives the wooden pin into your chest and burns the eyes. A maniacal Judge, reincarnated as a huge rat, torments a visitor into dreadful rage. Another paradigm is a possessed Black Cat.
    • 3/5
      I thought this collection was just okay. I enjoyed the story The Judge's House the most. A good rat story is always fun.
      I was a bit disappointed in this collection. I'm a big fan of Dracula and I guess I just expected more.
    • 3/5
      The title piece is an excised section of Dracula. Mrs S says in her preface that it was removed due to the length of the novel. I suspect though that it's excision was more provoked by the fact that it portrays Harker as an absolute muppet and really reveals far too much far too early. If you've read Dracula you my well find that the opening part, Harker's Journal, is by far the most powerful part of the book and this would interrupt the flow.The remaining stories are for the most part overly predicable or pointless grisly stories. There are nice bits - the deaths in The Squaw are well done, for example and as Mrs S stresses, these are early and unrevised works. The humour of Crooken Sands is enjoyable too. I particularly enjoyed A Dream of Red Hands. I really do identify with Jacob Settle. Can't believe I'm admitting this online, but I do, so there. (I haven't actually murdered anyone.)I think this would be most of interest to a Dracula fan. Stoker is obviously a man with something on his mind and there are elements of all the stories that put you in mind of that novel, not least of which is his obsession with the sense of dread, either in his characters or his audience.
    • 4/5
      3.5 ★

      My favorite was Dracula's Guest
      You just can't compete with the aristocratic vampire.

      I found some short stories more interesting than others.
      They had elements of the supernatural , physical terror and always an unsettling
      aura.
      Since Bram Stoker wrote a number of novels and many short stories, I'll search for more.

      5 AUDIO DISCS
    • 3/5

      This is a collection of various tales, being Dracula's guest only one of them.

      As for the tales themselves, my absolute favourite would definitely be the Judge's House, followed by the Dracula's Guest (which is a snippet that had been removed from Dracula).

      Other noteworthy tales would also include The Squaw (extremely predictable, but with creepy imagery), The Burial of Rats (the reason for the title is pretty creepy, but lots of plus points for being the most action packed, since it features a chase scene), and The Secret of Growing Gold (reads much like a ghost story). Honourable mention for A Dream of Red Hands, which I found to be more original among the other tales, even if not exactly the most engaging. The rating would go something like this:

      4* The Judge's House
      4* Dracula's Guest
      4* The Burial of Rats

      3* The Squaw
      3* The Secret of Growing Gold
      3* A Dream of Red Hands

      2* The Coming of Abel Behenna
      2* The Gipsy Prophecy
      2* Crooken Sands

      As I said, the stories follow much the same plotline for the most part, which makes them extremely predictable when reading them all in a row. To be honest, the more stories I read, the more bored I became, because I could foresee overall what was coming. By the end, I just wanted to finish the book already, since the only story able to get me out of my 'stupor' in the second half was The Burial of Rats.

      I'd still highly recommend The Judge's House and Dracula's Guest to anyone who liked Dracula however, I found those have the same wonderful eery and creepy atmosphere I loved in that book. Just those two tales alone make this book worth reading.
    • 4/5
      An excellent anthology by the Master himself. From the title story through The Signalman to Crooken Sands - all are the classic, chilling tales recognizable as Bram Stokers'.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. For its time it had some very interesting ideas and was easy to read