Dracula

<p>Bram Stoker’s <em>Dracula </em>is certainly the most famous vampire story and its popularity has only grown with time.</p><p>Dracula “was in life a most wonderful man: soldier statesman and alchemist--a student of the black arts at the academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains.  He had a mighty brain a learning beyond compare and a heart that knew neither fear nor remorse.”   Although he has died several centuries ago he has returned as a vampire and as the novel begins embarks on his plan of world domination by infiltrating London and beginning a reign of terror.    His nemesis is Professor Abraham Van Helsing  “a philosopher and a metaphysician and one of the most advanced scientists of his day.  He had an iron nerve a temper of the ice-brook and indomitable resolution self-command and toleration … and the kindliest and truest heart that beats.”</p>