Dracula's guest, and other weird stories vs The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar: Which Should You Read?

Dracula's guest, and other weird stories Bram Stoker · 1914 ★★★★☆ 3.5 108 pages · ≈ 2 h 00 m · Challenging

Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of…

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Edgar Allan Poe · 1846 ★★★★☆ 3.9 26 pages · ≈ 29 min · Challenging

“Of course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion.”

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by the American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and…