The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker [1966 PAPERBACK]

The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker 

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1966] PAPERBACK LIBRARY GOTHIC 

Rare first paperback printing in very good condition.  Cover is in nice shape with some visible wear.   Inside pages read very nicely with some tanning.  A few chipped / discolored pages at the tail end of the book [see last 2 photos,] otherwise excellent. 

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A tale of vibrant horror by the author of DRACULA...

To a land of secret horror came a young Englishman as new master of the castle of Vissarion. Even before he reached it he saw the tormented girl whose eyes were like stars set in the pallor of death....

Rupert Saint Leger inherits his uncle's estate worth more than one million pounds, on condition that he live for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains on the Dalmatian coast. One wet night, he is visited in his room in the castle by a pale woman wearing a wet shroud, seeking warmth. He lets her dry herself before his fire, and she flees before morning. She visits several more times, all at night, and they hardly speak, but he falls in love with her, despite thinking she is a vampire. He visits the local church and finds her in a glass-topped stone coffin in the crypt…