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May 13 '09	New App: $.99, v1.0

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Dracula and Other Vampire Tales

iOS iPhone

This eBook is a collection of five vampire stories by various authors. “Dracula” by Bram Stoker is certainly the most famous vampire story in English literature but other excellent tales – contained in this eBook – either influenced or were influenced by Stoker's masterpiece. This eBook contains:

+Dracula by Bram Stoker (first published in 1897).

+Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker: This short story – first published in 1914 – is thought by many to be the first chapter of the novel “Dracula,” considered unnecessary in the final publication. In the story, an unnamed protagonist (usually assumed to be Jonathan Harker, a character in the novel “Dracula”) encounters a malevolent spirit on his way to visit Count Dracula.

+Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu: This novel, first published in 1872, relates a young woman's encounter with a female vampire, Carmilla. Carmilla has served as a prototype for several lesbian vampires occuring in later literature.

+The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck. This story, published in 1907, contains the first example of a gay male vampire. The monster is also a psychic vampire in the sense that it consumes psychic energy as well as blood from its victims.

+The Vampyre by John Polidori: This is the first vampire story published in English (in 1819). The story follows Lord Ruthven, an aristocratic vampire whose victims are also members of the upper classes. The story was originally attributed to Lord Byron, for whom Polidori acted for a time as personal physician.

HOW TO USE THE EBOOK:
You can access the text with the following commands:
+When reading a chapter, swipe to the left to go to the next page.
+Swipe to the right to go to the previous page.
+Double-tap the screen to move to the beginning of a chapter.
+Click on the 'B' button at the top-right of each page of text to store a bookmark at the current page. You can delete outdated bookmarks by editing the Bookmarks list. The eBook also automatically stores a bookmark at the most recently viewed page. This last-page-viewed bookmark always appears at the top of the Bookmarks list and cannot be deleted.

The eBook application allows you to change the text's font type, color and size as well as the color of the background. These settings will be saved when the application is closed and automatically applied when the eBook is opened again.

These instructions are repeated in the eBook application.

Please note that when you first open a chapter, the application takes two or three seconds to perform certain initialization operations before the text appears. The same is true when you change font and/or color settings. You should see an activity indicator going round and round while the application performs this initialization.

Languages: English

Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update
iPhone OS 3.0 Tested