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: ~20.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Horror, Historical Fiction
"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)
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