''Under the Sunset'' is a collection of

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Bram Stoker Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912), better known by his pen name Bram Stoker, was an Irish novelist who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel ''Dracula''. The book is widely considered a milestone in Vampire fiction, and one of t ...

(the author of ''

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''), first published in 1881. It was illustrated by W. V. Cockburn and William FitzGerald, the younger brother of the Dublin physicist

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. Its significance in the development of

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was recognized by its republication in October 1978 by the

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as the seventeenth volume of the celebrated

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series. The stories in the 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" "The Shadow Builder" was adapted to film in 1998 as '' Shadow Builder''.

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External links

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Bram Stoker Online
Full text and PDF versions of the entire collection. * 1881 short story collections Fantasy short story collections Short story collections by Bram Stoker {{1880s-story-collection-stub