Dracula
Bram Stoker (Author)
"The Most Famous Vampire Novel Ever written, Bram Stoker's Dracula has enthralled generations of readers as completely as Count Dracula enthralls his victims. Though Stoker did not invent vampires - and in fact based his character's life-in-death on extensive research in European folklore - his 1897 novel elevated the nocturnal creature to iconic stature, spawning a genre of stories and movies that flourishes to this day. A century of imitations has done nothing to diminish the power of Stoker's tale. As his suave and chilling monster stalks his prey from a crumbling castle in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania to an insane asylum in England to the bedrooms of his swooning female victims, the drama builds to a fever pitch of sensuality and suspense. Dracula is a classic of Gothic horror, an undying wellspring of modern mythology, and in irresistible entertainment." -- Dust Jacket
Horror fiction
xli, 386 pages ; 22 cm.
9780307593856, 0307593851
462881244