Dracula

“No man knows till he experiences it what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.” Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula s attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of people led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Dracula is an epistolary novel written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries telegrams letters ship s logs and newspaper clippings all of which added a level of detailed realism to the story a skill which Stoker had developed as a newspaper writer. At the time of its publication Dracula was considered a "straightforward horror novel" based on imaginary creations of supernatural life. "It gave form to a universal fantasy ... and became a part of popular culture."