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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
IntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyTimeline of Vampire Literature Before DraculaA Chronology of Bram StokerChapter I Jonathan Harker's Journal (Kept in shorthand)Chapter II JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNALChapter III JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNALChapter IV JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNALChapter V Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy WestenraChapter VI MINA MURRAY'S JOURNALChapter VII Cutting from 'The Dailygraph,' 8 August (Pasted in Mina Murray's Journal)Chapter VIII MINA MURRAY'S JOURNALChapter IX Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy WestenraChapter X Letter, Dr Seward to Hon. Arthur HolmwoodChapter XI LUCY WESTENRA'S DIARYChapter XII DR SEWARD'S DIARYChapter XIII DR SEWARD'S DIARYChapter XIV MINA HARKER'S JOURNALChapter XV DR SEWARD'S DIARYChapter XVI DR SEWARD'S DIARYChapter XVII DR SEWARD'S DIARYChapter XVIII DR SEWARD'S DIARYChapter XIX JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNALChapter XX JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNALChapter XXI DR SEWARD'S DIARYChapter XXII JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNALChapter XXIII DR SEWARD'S DIARYChapter XXIV DR SEWARD'S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSINGChapter XXV DR SEWARD'S DIARYChapter XXVI DR SEWARD'S DIARYChapter XXVII MINA HARKER'S JOURNALAppendix Dracula's GuestExplanatory Notes
