Dracula: Annotated for the 125th Anniversary

“An absolute must for Dracula, Horror, and Literary History aficionados the world over.”In the author’s full, original form, Dracula: Annotated is the very first edition of Bram Stoker’s timeless classic horror novel to be written by a member of Bram Stoker’s family, Dacre Stoker, his great-grandnephew, with award-winning vampire expert, Robert Eighteen-Bisang.This 125th Anniversary edition of Dracula considers all the text known to have been put into or taken out of the Dracula oeuvre by Bram Stoker’s own hand. Deftly weaving together every known version of Dracula that Bram created, this edition uses Bram’s Original Notes for Dracula; the typescript of Dracula (entitled The Un-Dead); “Dracula’s Guest”; and Bram’s early outlines (ca. 1890) for the novel’s first, second, and third chapters – with Constable’s text of 1897 as the base. Within these pages are Bram’s hand-written changes and all of the pre-publication deletions from the original typescript, as well as the entire abridged edition of 1901— read for the first time the changes Bram made to create his dramatic adaptation of Dracula in 1897 and note the differences in the Doubleday & McClure and William Rider texts. This exceptional, incredibly unique slice of literary history represents a rare insight into the remarkable creative process of Bram Stoker, the grand master of horror himself.

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