The Castle of the King, Bram Stoker
The Castle of the King, Bram Stoker
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The Castle of the King

Author: Bram Stoker

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 12/04/2012

Synopsis

An old poet finds himself separated by many miles from his dying wife and is reflecting over their life together in his sadness and misery. Theirs was a story of two people from different stations of life - he, poor and she, rich. He worked hard to make a name for himself and, having done so, he returns to her to find out that she had loved him all these years and was waiting for him as well. The poet is so distraught that with it having taken so long for them to be together, it seems even more unfair for them to be separated at the end. Finding out that his love has passed away, he immediately decides to follow after her to the Castle of the King of Death.
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish writer of novels and short stories, most famous for his gothic horror novel Dracula. Although he wrote throughout his life while working as a personal assistant and theatre manager, he did not achieve much literary fame until after his death.

About Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker was born November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a civil servant, and his mother was a charity worker and writer. Stoker studied math at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1867, after which he became a civil servant. At this time, he also worked as a freelance journalist, a drama critic, and editor of the Evening Mail. In 1876, he met Sir Henry Irving, a famous actor. Stoker accepted a job as personal secretary to Irving and went to England in 1878. Before he left Ireland, he published his first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland. While working for Irving he met an aspiring actress named Florence Balcombe. They married in 1878 and had one son, Noel, who was born in 1879. In England, Stoker also began writing a series of short stories and novels, the first of which was The Snake's Pass. Although best known for Dracula, Stoker wrote eighteen books before he died in 1912.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tom

On first reading this short story I read it as a standalone and not in context of its being one of a group of eight children's stories that were part of the collection of stories in Stoker's Under the Sunset collection. On this second reading I read it along with the other stories in the collection.......more

Goodreads review by Liliana

A gothic and beautifully well-written tale. I just wish there had been some sort of confrontation, because as it is it is a very passively written story.......more

Goodreads review by Elly

very sweet concept, but literally nothing happened.......more

Goodreads review by Glenn

I am not really sure what to call this, maybe a dark fantasy. But the story concerns a man who had lost the love of his life, and in death her soul has been taken to the Castle of the King, an inner region within the Realm of the Dead. In his grief the man while still in his mortal coil, with unwave......more

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