The Jewel of Seven Stars

The chief later-issue trap is the abridged reissue: William Rider & Son, London, 1912, 307 pp., which deletes Chapter XVI and substitutes the happy ending. It is a 'first thus' at best, and it is the text most modern reprints — and the Project Gutenberg file — carry; it is unclear whether Stoker himself made the changes. The excised chapter was later printed separately as 'The Bridal of Death' in a 1990 collection, and modern editions advertising 'both endings' are of course reprints. No book-club issue is documented for the 1903 Heinemann edition.