Under the Sunset [Paperback]

Bram Stoker (Author)

Book Description

Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and color, give a promise of the glory and beauty that encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams. This Country is the Land Under the Sunset. This is the story of that Country, and what happened when evil came to abide there. It is a story all of us must hear.

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: Borgo Press (July 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592249779
• ISBN-13: 978-1592249770
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,450,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Collection of Children's Stories?, December 23, 2005

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Paul S. Mcalduff (Kwangju, South Korea) - See all my reviews
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While Stoker originally wrote this collection of eight short stores for children, I would be reluctant to read most of the stories to anyone under the age of ten. I found the stories themselves to be a rather mixed bag both in terms of theme and quality. My favorite by far was "The Invisible Giant."

The eight stories in this collection are:

Under the Sunset
The Rose Prince
The Invisible Giant
The Shadow Builder
How 7 Went Mad
Lies and Lilies
The Castle of the King
The Wondrous Child

While definitely not Stoker's best work, I enjoyed reading it all the same.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ..or Bram Stoker's Fairy Tales, June 28, 2009

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Steven McCaw "Horror Junky" (Salem, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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After having read The Castle of the King in a large collection of ghost stories, I just had to check this book out. I'm willing to be that virtually everyone looking into this book is familiar with his more famous work, Dracula. I was more expecting, as the back of the book says, a few tales of terror. That's not what you'll get.

To put it in a nutshell... imagine the guy who wrote Dracula wrote some Fairy Tales as well. It's exactly what you would expect.

The result is a bunch of stories, ranging from the flagrantly biblical (The Rose Prince) to the unbelievably dark (The Shadow Maker, the Castle of the King). The stories tend towards sad rather than frightening, and if you're a normal parent, you might not want to read them to your children.... fortunately for me, I'm not a normal parent. Crazy parents rejoice!