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'it was butcher work...the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam'
Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world, an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London, the very heart of the British Empire. Only a handful of men and women stand between Dracula and his long-cherished goal, but they are vulnerable and weak against the cunning and supernatural powers of the Count and his legions. As the horrifying story unfolds in the diaries and letters of young Jonathan Harker, Lucy, Mina, and Dr Seward, Dracula will be victorious unless his nemesis Professor Van Helsing can persuade them that monsters still lurk in the era of electric light.
The most famous of all vampire stories, Dracula is a mirror of its age, its underlying themes of race, religion, science, superstition, and sexuality never far from the surface. A compelling read, rattling along at break-neck speed, it is a modern classic. This new edition includes Stoker's companion piece, 'Dracula's Guest'.
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Contents
Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography Timeline of Vampire Literature Before Dracula A Chronology of Bram Stoker
Chapter I Jonathan Harker's Journal (Kept in shorthand) Chapter II JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL Chapter III JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL Chapter IV JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL Chapter V Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra Chapter VI MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL Chapter VII Cutting from 'The Dailygraph,' 8 August (Pasted in Mina Murray's Journal) Chapter VIII MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL Chapter IX Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra Chapter X Letter, Dr Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood Chapter XI LUCY WESTENRA'S DIARY Chapter XII DR SEWARD'S DIARY Chapter XIII DR SEWARD'S DIARY Chapter XIV MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL Chapter XV DR SEWARD'S DIARY Chapter XVI DR SEWARD'S DIARY Chapter XVII DR SEWARD'S DIARY Chapter XVIII DR SEWARD'S DIARY Chapter XIX JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL Chapter XX JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL Chapter XXI DR SEWARD'S DIARY Chapter XXII JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL Chapter XXIII DR SEWARD'S DIARY Chapter XXIV DR SEWARD'S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING Chapter XXV DR SEWARD'S DIARY Chapter XXVI DR SEWARD'S DIARY Chapter XXVII MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
Appendix Dracula's Guest Explanatory Notes
