Dracula

Name: Dracula
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The novel that fixed the vampire in the modern imagination.

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Count Dracula travels from Transylvania to England, drawing a group of people into a struggle against a supernatural threat. Letters and journals piece together the unfolding danger.

B By Bram Stoker

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Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to complete a property sale and discovers what his client is. Dracula reaches England, and Mina Harker, Dr Seward, Lucy Westenra and the Dutch professor Van Helsing are drawn into stopping him.

Stoker assembles the book entirely from journals, letters, telegrams and phonograph cylinders, so the reader pieces the threat together from fragments, usually ahead of the characters. Almost every vampire convention since traces back here.

How the documentary form, letters and diaries and cuttings, creates dread by withholding the whole picture.
Which vampire conventions Stoker fixed for good, and which later films invented.
Why the Transylvanian opening chapters are often called the strongest part of the novel.
What Mina contributes, and why she is far more than the victim the adaptations make her.
How Victorian anxieties about foreignness, contagion and technology run underneath the plot.
Why Van Helsing works as an antagonist to Dracula on the level of knowledge, not strength.

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Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: Lexicon Publishing
Language: English
Format: Paperback

Bram Stoker was an Irish author best known for his Gothic horror novel 'Dracula' (1897), which established many conventions of the vampire genre. He also wrote several other novels and short stories, often exploring themes of horror and the supernatural.

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