The Haunted Omnibus

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LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY dfordoom)

The Haunted Omnibus, edited by Alexander Laing and originally published in 1937, has been recommended to me as one of those anthologies that one simply has to own. What do you think? There are reasonably cheap used copies available so it seems tempting.

Stoker and his influences

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LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY dfordoom)

Apparently Bram Stoker was much influenced in the writing of Dracula by William Wilkinson's Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia which had been published in 1820. And Wilkinson's book was partly based on The Generall Historie of the Turkes by Richard Knolles, which came out in 1603.

Has anyone read either of these books?