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Back from the dead: the first ever zombie story Before there was Dracula, there was The Castle in Transylvania . In its first new translation in over 100 years, this is the first book to set a gothic horror story, featuring people who may or may not be dead, in Transylvania... Read Full Overview

Volume 37 of 54 in Jules Verne's "Extraordinary Voyages", first published in 1893. In the village of Werst in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania (then part of Austria-Hungary), some mysterious things are occurring and the villagers believe that Chort (the devil) occupies... Read Full Overview

En ella el autor toma la tradici n de la novela g tica del siglo XIX para escribir un libro alejado, en principio, de sus temas acostumbrados. Pueblos atemorizados por la presencia de un castillo maldito habitado por el Diablo; rivalidades por amores pasados; psicofon as y apariciones;... Read Full Overview

?Mais ? peine avait-il march? quelques pas que le pont-levis se relevait avec fracas contre la poterne... Le comte Franz de T?lek ?tait prisonnier dans le ch'teau des Carpathes.? Le ch'teau des Carpathes est hant?, et son village maudit. Les habitants de Werst le savent bien... Read Full Overview

The stories in this volume reflect the dark themes evident in Verne

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Le ch'teau des Carpathes

La Stilla es una gran cantante de pera, aclamada por el p blico y elogiada por la cr tica. Uno de sus m s fervientes admiradores es el Bar n de Gortz, El Bar n es concurrente asiduo a sus representaciones, es un enigm tico personaje con medios suficientes para seguir a la artista... Read Full Overview

Se trata de una obra fant stica alejada de la tem tica "cient fica" de Verne, y en ella ven algunos autores una de las mejores y m s rom nticas historias "vamp ricas" de la literatura.

La Stilla es una gran cantante de pera, aclamada por el p blico y elogiada por la cr tica. Uno de sus m s fervientes admiradores es el Bar n de Gortz, El Bar n es concurrente asiduo a sus representaciones, es un enigm tico personaje con medios suficientes para seguir a la artista... Read Full Overview

Jules Verne: Das Karpatenschloss LE CHATEAU DES CARPATHES (entstanden 1889). Frz. Vorabdruck: Magasin d'Education et de R cr ation 1.1.-15.12.1892. Frz. Buch-Erstausgabe. J. Hetzel, Paris 1892. Dt. Buch-Erstausgabe: A. Hartleben, Wien Pest Leipzig o. J., ausgeliefert Mai 1893... Read Full Overview