A junior solicitor travels to Transylvania to meet with an important client, the mysterious Count Dracula. Ignoring the dire warnings of local townsfolk, he allows himself to be seduced by the count’s courtly manners and erudite charm. Too late, the solicitor realizes that he is a prisoner of Castle Dracula, his guards a trio of voluptuous young women with sharp white teeth and a taste for blood.

Soon thereafter, the solicitor’s fiancée, Mina, visits a friend on the English coast. The town is full of speculation over a Russian ship run aground nearby, its crew missing, the dead body of its captain, crucifix in hand, lashed to the wheel. A giant dog was seen leaping from the deck before disappearing into the countryside. The ship’s cargo: fifty boxes of Transylvanian dirt. As the beautiful Mina will soon learn, Count Dracula has arrived. 

At once a Gothic reflection of the Victorian era and a timeless tale of sinister lust, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has inspired countless adaptations—none with the same power to quicken the pulse as the original.

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“I think it is the very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years.” —Arthur Conan Doyle

“In seeking a parallel to this weird, powerful and horrible story, our minds revert to such tales as The Mysteries of Udolpho, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, The Fall of the House of Usher . . . but Dracula is even more appalling in its gloomy fascination than any one of these.” —Daily Mail    

Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish novelist, short story author, drama critic, and the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London. Published in 1897, his Gothic novel Dracula introduced readers to one of the most popular fictional characters of all time.