Dracula

<p><strong><em>Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!</em></strong></p><p>When Count Dracula welcomes Jonathan Harker into his ancient castle perched amid Transylvania's Carpathian Mountains the young solicitor is plunged into a nightmare that will test his mettle and his sanity. Dracula--as Harker his fiancée Mina Murray Lucy Westenra her suitors and Dr. Abraham Van Helsing will soon learn--is a dangerous and powerful vampire who has lived for centuries and possesses abilities no mortal can claim. Bent on creating legions of Un-Dead followers in teeming 1890s London Dracula must be stopped--but how? Bram Stoker's <strong><em>Dracula</em></strong>--told from multiple perspectives in a series of journal entries letters and communiqués and first published in 1897--established an entire genre of fiction and with its brooding sense of dread blood-curdling suspense and edge-of-your-seat action formed the template for countless homages reinterpretations and adaptations. This unabridged edition includes numerous maps and historical illustrations.</p>