Bram Stoker · 1897
When Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897, vampires were already a staple of the shadowy end of Victorian fiction, but no one had made one like this. Stoker, a theatre manager and long-time assistant to the actor Henry Irving, spent years researching Eastern European folklore before sending his young English solicitor, Jonathan Harker, to a decaying castle in the Carpathians to meet a client who never seems to eat, sleep or cast a reflection.
The novel is told entirely through journals, letters, telegrams, phonograph recordings and newspaper clippings, so the story arrives in pieces, from many voices, as the characters themselves struggle to assemble the truth. It is a tale of fear and pursuit, and of an old evil arriving in a modern, rational London. This volume offers the original text alongside a modern-English edition.
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