La casa del juez

Escrito por Bram Stoker

Narrado por Juan Manuel Martínez

En abril, cuando se acercaba la fecha de sus exámenes de matemáticas, Malcolm Malcomson decidió marchar a un lugar retirado, con el fin de poder estudiar con
tranquilidad. Buscó un pueblo sin pretensiones, Benchurch, donde nadie ni nada pudieran distraerle del estudio. Buscando, sólo una casa llamó su atención, tras un examen más detenido, le pareció más una fortaleza que una mansión ordinaria. Había sido la casa de un juez y en el pueblo decían que estaba maldita, que ocurrían cosas extrañas, de las que fue advertido, pero Malcomson consideró que esas advertencias eran meras supersticiones de pueblerinos. Una vez instalado en la casa, Malcomson comenzó a aplicarse al estudio con gran intensidad, tan solo acompañado por el bramido
del viento y el ruido de las ratas que habitaban en la casa. De pronto, un silencio absoluto se adueñó del lugar; las ratas permanecieron en silencio mientras una enorme rata le miraba fijamente desde una silla...

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Editorial Libervox Audio
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 1 ene 2014
• ISBN: 9788416080496

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist. Born in Dublin, Stoker suffered from an unknown illness as a young boy before entering school at the age of seven. He would later remark that the time he spent bedridden enabled him to cultivate his imagination, contributing to his later success as a writer. He attended Trinity College, Dublin from 1864, graduating with a BA before returning to obtain an MA in 1875. After university, he worked as a theatre critic, writing a positive review of acclaimed Victorian actor Henry Irving’s production of Hamlet that would spark a lifelong friendship and working relationship between them. In 1878, Stoker married Florence Balcombe before moving to London, where he would work for the next 27 years as business manager of Irving’s influential Lyceum Theatre. Between his work in London and travels abroad with Irving, Stoker befriended such artists as Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Hall Caine, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1895, having published several works of fiction and nonfiction, Stoker began writing his masterpiece Dracula (1897) while vacationing at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel in Cruden Bay, Scotland. Stoker continued to write fiction for the rest of his life, achieving moderate success as a novelist. Known more for his association with London theatre during his life, his reputation as an artist has grown since his death, aided in part by film and television adaptations of Dracula, the enduring popularity of the horror genre, and abundant interest in his work from readers and scholars around the world.