{"product_id":"9781448130634","title":"Stop What You're Doing and Read...After Dark: Ghost Stories \u0026 Dracula","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo mark the publication of \u003ci\u003eStop What You're Doing and Read This!,\u003c\/i\u003e a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundles', to tempt readers to discover and rediscover great books. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM.R. JAMES' GHOST STORIES\u003cbr\u003eSELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY RUTH RENDELL\u003cbr\u003eM. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window - ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the original master of suspense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDRACULA\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The door is shut, and the chains rattle; there is a grinding of the key in the lock; I hear the creaking of lock and bolt...I shall not remain alone with them. I may find a way from this dreadful place, away from this cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet!'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eYoung lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania on business for a mysterious Count. Months later in England, beautiful Lucy Westenra falls ill and dies, inexplicably, as if from a severe loss of blood. Lucy's friends, including Jonathan's fiancée Mina and the intrepid doctor Van Helsing, must begin a desperate battle against a powerful, ancient evil, in Bram Stoker's definitive gothic tale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134694637808,"sku":"9781448130634","price":4.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448130634_p0.jpg?v=1763827329","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448130634","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}