Dracula

Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker''s Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author''s mother, who wrote her son: "It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley''s Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror."

A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker''s hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracul...