Dracula

Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stokers Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897 the most astute praise came from the authors mother who wrote her son: It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelleys Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality or terror. A popular bestseller in Victorian England Stokers hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later.