Classic
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Summary
Solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to a remote Transylvanian castle to close a property sale and discovers his client, Count Dracula, is an ancient vampire preparing to hunt in England. Stoker assembles the fight against the Count from journals, letters, and newspaper clippings, as Mina Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and their allies track him from London back to his castle. The novel gathered older vampire lore into a single definitive myth that horror fiction and film still draw on.
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Historical Context & Significance
Stoker published the novel in 1897 after years of research into Eastern European folklore. Though only a modest success in his lifetime, stage and film adaptations made Dracula one of the most portrayed characters in cinema.