Great classic

I thoroughly enjoyed this. I don’t tend to like romance as a genre but I do have a soft spot for the classics. In my opinion Dracula was a love story, just as this is...more

Stoker finally nails the ending! The previous eight books have suffered from varying degrees of "monster's dead, movie's over" (the closest exception being The Snake's Pass) and here, on his ninth novel with only two more left to go (excluding LotWW) he finally manages to give the denouement an appr

Too plodding, cumbersome. Not a novel for me. I didn't finish it.

Thoroughly impressed by Stoker’s writing in Dracula, I wanted to see how it carried over in work of a different sort. This book, rarely reviewed or described online, seemed a good choice where nobody else’s perceptions influenced mine. We meet lovely teenager Stephen (her father wanted a boy…) and H

The Man by Bram Stoker is a Gothic romance that follows the life of Stephen Norman, the daughter of Squire Stephen Norman, the lord of the manor in Normanstead. Margaret Rowly marries Squire Stephen whom they raise as a tomboy, as the squire had always wanted a male a heir. Margaret dies, but the sq

Calling this "a rare novel of fear" is a bit misleading: there are some tense moments, but not enough to qualify the book as a mystery or even really a thriller. It's a bit of a hybrid work, falling more on the side of Stoker's romances (like The Snake's Pass and Lady Athelyne) but even then not qui

Surprisingly good.