Dracula
Bram Stoker's 1897 vampire novel, told in letters and diaries, follows the hunt for Count Dracula from Transylvania to England.
Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic novel is told through letters, diary entries and newspaper clippings. It opens with the English solicitor Jonathan Harker on a business trip to the Transylvanian castle of Count Dracula, who reveals himself as a vampire and moves to England, where he preys on the seaside town of Whitby. Harker joins a group led by Abraham Van Helsing to hunt him down. Stoker drew on folklore and history and filled more than a hundred pages with notes.
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Isabel Allende
We all know this macabre Victorian novel loaded with sexual innuendo, suspense, Christian paranoia, blood, mystery, and even a zoophagous madman. What is there not to like? It is badly written, but the story fascinates me to this day.
Article · January 2014
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