Dracula

“Stoker gives us the most remarkable scenes of horror...each is unforgettable, and no movie has quite done justice to any of them.” --Stephen KingBeware, Count Dracula is a vampire - brilliant, bloodthirsty, and cruel. He emerges at night to find his next victims.“Dracula”, a horror Gothic novel, is one of the most well-known masterpieces of English literature. It was written as an epistolary novel. The story is narrated through letters, diary records, and newspaper articles.The story begins with Jonathan Harker who travels to Transylvania, and finds himself in the middle of a series of horrifying adventures in Count Dracula's castle. The castle is a dark and mysterious place, where terror is constant and survival is rare.Dracula was written in 1897 by Irish author Bram Stoker during the Victorian period, in which moralities and ethics were often strictly applied. Some of the morals that were reinforced had to do with personal duty, truthfulness, honesty, as well as sexual proprietary. Nonetheless , in this novel, the author, sought to challenge the ‘norm’ by providing a critique of this strictness.In this outstanding novel superstition, imprisonment, temptation, and debauchery are addressed. Moreover, the conflict between modernity and the ancient world is one of the messages you catch while reading the book.The novel has been adapted for film over 30 times, and numerous appearances have been made from its protagonists.About the author: Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an irish author best known today for his gothic horror Novel “Dracula”. He attended Trinity College in Dublin and earned a degree in mathematics. Later, Stoker involved in the theater when he became acting manager and then business manager of Irving's Lyceum Theatre, London.

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