Bram Stoker’s 1897 epistolary novel introduced Count Dracula to the world — and with him, the enduring archetype of the literary vampire. Told through journals, letters, and newspaper clippings, the story follows solicitor Jonathan Harker’s terrifying stay in a Transylvanian castle and the subsequent battle waged by a small group of heroes against an ancient, blood-drinking evil that has followed him to England.
Atmospheric, suspenseful, and saturated with Victorian anxieties about gender, disease, and foreign influence, Dracula is far richer than its many adaptations suggest. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg and read the novel that launched a thousand horror stories.