The Jewel of Seven Stars

Bram Stoker

Tom Doherty Associates, May 15, 1999 - Fiction - 288 pages

"Hither the Gods come not at any summons. The Nameless One has insulted them and is forever alone. Go not nigh, lest their vengeance wither you away!"

The warning was inscribed on the entrance of the hidden tomb, forgotten for millennia in the sands of mystic Egypt. Then the archaeologists and grave robbers came in search of the fabled Jewel of Seven Stars, which they found clutched in the hand of the mummy. Few heeded the ancient warning, until all who came in contact with the Jewel began to die in a mysterious and violent way--with the marks of a strangler around their neck.

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Review: The Jewel of Seven Stars

User Review  - Cornelia - Goodreads

This book has two endings. When originally published in 1903 and in second publishing in 1904 it had an ending that was critics at the time as being too gruesome so when Stoker published it again ...

Review: The Jewel of Seven Stars

User Review  - nacchi - Goodreads

I liked it A LOT more than I thought I would after having read Dracula. The mystery was interesting as well, and even though here and there I found the pacing a bit too slow or a bit of an interlude ...

About the author

Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. Although a semi-invalid as a child, he went on the gain a reputation as a fine athlete at Trinity College, where he also excelled in mathematics and philosophy. Stoker worked as a civil servant and a journalist before becoming the personal secretary of the famous actor Henry Irving. He also wrote 15 works of fiction, only one of which is very memorable - Dracula (1897). This work, involving hypnotism, magic, the supernatural, and other elements of gothic fiction, went on to sell over one million copies and is still selling strongly today. So well known has his fictional character become that today it is possible to visit the castle of Count Dracula in the Transylvanian region of Romania, a country that Stoker never visited. Several film versions of the story, both serious and comic, have made Stoker's work a part of modern mythology. His novel The Lair of the White Worm (1911) has also been made into film. It and the novel The Lady of the Shroud are, like Dracula, fantastic tales of horror.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Jewel of Seven Stars; Tor Classics
• Author: Bram Stoker
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, 1999
• ISBN: 0812568958, 9780812568950
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Horror