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Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters , diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula .
Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.During his life, he was better known as the personal assistant of the actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.
The Dracula book. Scarecrow Press. Stoker, Bram; Eighteen-Bisang, Robert; Miller, Elizabeth (2008). Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition. McFarland. ISBN 9780786451869. Turley Houston, Gail (2005). From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction. Volume 48 of Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature ...
In contrast to the mixed reaction to Stoker's previous work, the Dracula sequel Dracula the Un-dead, the critical response to Dracul has been positive. [4] Kirkus Reviews wrote that it "will no doubt be a hit among monster-movie and horror lit fans—and for good reason", noting that it is "a lively if unlovely story, in which the once febrile Bram becomes a sort of Indiana Jones".
His success with this series was such that he was hired to write the novelization of the 1992 movie Bram Stoker's Dracula. The Dracula Tape (Warner June 1975/Ace January 1980) The Holmes-Dracula File (Ace November 1978) (Note: Seance for a Vampire, set in 1903, is next in the reading order.) An Old Friend of the Family (Ace June 1979)
"Dracula," the Gothic, mysterious and supernatural vampire novel from 1897 may have been set in Transylvania and England but its author, Stoker, was a Dubliner. "I read 'Dracula' as a child and it ...
"Dracula's Guest" is a short story by Bram Stoker, first published in the short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914). Scholars are divided on whether the story is the excised first chapter of the novel Dracula, an early draft of a chapter of that novel, or was meant as a separate story.
Mina is one of the main characters in 1975 novel The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen, which is the retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula from Dracula's point of view. This is actually book one of a ten part book series of which Mina is a major recurring character. [4] [5]