"The Castle of the King"is a short story by Bram Stoker. It was first published in 1881 in Stoker's first collection of short stories Under the Sunset, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London. In 1982 "The Castle of the King" appeared in Shades of Dracula: The Uncollected Stories of Bram Stoker, William Kimber, London, and in 1997 it appeared in Best Ghost and Horror Stories, Dover Publications, Inc., New York.Newspaper publication An excerpt from "The Castle of the King" was published under the title "The Shadow Builder" in the May 3, 1882 issue of the South Bourke and Mornington Journal, Richmond, Victoria, Australia. Availability This short story is available as a: Illustrations
![]() Under the Sunset, Sampson Low, London, 1881 Newspaper image
![]() South Bourke and Mornington Journal, Richmond, VIC, Australia, May 3, 1882 |