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Those adaptations have, however, often been very loose. There have been a number of adaptation of "Dracula's Guest" to other media.

The coachman says that the place is "unholy" and that it was abandoned because the dead did not stay truly dead there.

Ignoring the warnings of a German coachman, the Englishman decides to go off on his own in the direction of a long-deserted village. The story's narrator and protagonist is an unnamed Englishman who is spending some time in Munich, Germany before traveling on to Transylvania as the guest of Count Dracula. It is likely, however, that Stoker rewrote that excised first chapter before it was published as "Dracula's Guest". Analysis of the manuscript of Dracula indicates that a first chapter was removed from it. It was originally excised owing to the length of the book." It is widely believed that "Dracula's Guest" was originally intended to be the first chapter of Dracula and was removed because either Stoker or his publisher believed it to be superfluous to the novel. In the introduction to Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, Florence Balcombe describes "Dracula's Guest" as, "an hitherto unpublished episode from Dracula. It was first published in 1914, some two years after Stoker's death, as part of the book Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, an anthology of Bram Stoker's short stories selected by his widow Florence Balcombe. "Dracula's Guest" (also published as "Dracula's Curse", "Dracula's Daughter", "The Dream in the Dead House" and "Walpurgis Night") is a short horror story by the Irish author Bram Stoker. Front cover of a first edition of Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories.