When Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to assist the mysterious Count Dracula, he uncovers a terrifying secret that follows him back to England. As Dracula spreads his dark influence, a group of unlikely heroes bands together to stop him. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a gothic masterpiece that explores fear, desire, and the battle between good and evil, shaping the modern image of the vampire legend.
Date: 1897 (Ireland)
Length: ~560 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~13.850.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Horror, Classics
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"The best vampire story ever written" — Daily Telegraph (1897)
"The eerie chapters are written and strung together with very considerable art and cunning, and also with unmistakable literary power" — Daily Mail (1897)
"It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax. It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid" — Arthur Conan Doyle (in a private letter to Stoker, August 1897)
"No book since Mrs Shelley’s Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror..." — Charlotte Stoker (Bram Stoker's mother, in a letter to her son. Described as possibly the most gratifying praise he received)
"Described the novel as vampire literature's centrepiece, rendering all other vampires BS [Before Stoker] or AS [After Stoker]" — Wendy Doniger (humanities scholar, modern assessment of its legacy)
"Persons of small courage and weak nerves should confine their reading of these gruesome pages strictly to the hours between dawn and sunset" — The Times
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