Dracula * Bram Stoker * Dover Thrift Edition

Told through letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings, this classic Gothic novel follows a young English lawyer who travels to a remote Transylvanian castle and uncovers an ancient vampire's plan to bring his dark curse to London.

The Story. Written by Irish author Bram Stoker and originally published in 1897, this Dover Thrift Edition presents the complete, unabridged text of the novel that defined modern vampire folklore.

The story opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker visiting the Carpathian fortress of Count Dracula to finalize a London real estate transaction. Harker soon realizes he is a prisoner, encountering shadowy phantom women and witnessing the Count's eerie nocturnal habits before narrowly escaping back to England. When Dracula arrives on English shores, a small circle led by Harker, Mina Murray, and the Dutch scholar Professor Abraham Van Helsing bands together to protect their loved ones and track the Count back to his homeland. Published by Dover Publications, this accessible edition brings Victorian suspense and atmospheric storytelling to a new generation of readers.

Perfect For. Classic horror readers, literature students, and fans of atmospheric Victorian suspense alongside Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.

First published 1897; this edition 2016 by Dover Publications.

Fiction / Classics / Gothic Horror / Victorian Literature / Epistolary Novels / Vampire Fiction / 19th-Century Classics