Before Twilight, before Buffy, before Anne Rice, there was Dracula. The first vampire. A fiendish aristocrat, an evil monster, and an almost insurmountable threat.
A classic work of gothic horror, Bram Stoker’s novel takes the form of letters and entries in diaries and journals, telling the story of Jonathan Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, and their friends and colleagues, as they encounter the Count, first as hunted, then as hunters.
The book deals with such themes as sexuality, Victorian womanhood, and colonialism, and is sure to offer something of interest for any reader.
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"Those who cannot find their own reflection in Bram Stoker's still-living creation are surely the undead ." — New York Times Review of Books
"An exercise in masculine anxiety and nationalist paranoia, Stoker's novel is filled with scenes that are staggeringly lurid and perverse.... The one in Highgate cemetery, where Arthur and Van Helsing drive a stake through the writhing body of the vampirised Lucy Westenra, is my favourite." — Sarah Waters, author of The Little Stranger
"It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror." — Bram Stoker's Mother
Before Twilight, before Buffy, before Anne Rice, there was Dracula. The first vampire. A fiendish aristocrat, an evil monster, and an almost insurmountable threat.
A classic work of gothic horror, Bram Stoker’s novel takes the form of letters and entries in diaries and journals, telling the story of Jonathan Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, and their friends and colleagues, as they encounter the Count, first as hunted, then as hunters.
The book deals with such themes as sexuality, Victorian womanhood, and colonialism, and is sure to offer something of interest for any reader.
Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Praise
"Those who cannot find their own reflection in Bram Stoker's still-living creation are surely the undead ." — New York Times Review of Books
"An exercise in masculine anxiety and nationalist paranoia, Stoker's novel is filled with scenes that are staggeringly lurid and perverse.... The one in Highgate cemetery, where Arthur and Van Helsing drive a stake through the writhing body of the vampirised Lucy Westenra, is my favourite." — Sarah Waters, author of The Little Stranger
"It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror." — Bram Stoker's Mother
