Name: Dracula
Rating: 3.840909090909091 (1254 reviews)
ISBN: 9781466386853

Bram Stoker

Aric Cushing

With a cast of 27 characters, Aric Cushing's adaptation includes Mrs. Westenra, Lucy's mother, whom is rarely portrayed in the dramatic versions, Simmons, the Teaming Man, Mr. Swales, and a plethora of other characters whom enlivened Bram Stoker's original novel. The complexityof Stoker's manuscript is not discarded, but instead celebrated in this complex, multi-accented rendition of the most famous horror tale of all time.

A Play in Two Acts

Dracula

Stephanie Spinner

Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

If you think you know a lot about Dracula but haven't read this.. you'll probably be surprised

Medora Sparkman

good but reading through 5 pages of a letter between two friends talking about mundane stuff not related to the plot in the slightest felt like a chore

Ahmer Nadeem

This Norton Critical Edition presents fully annotated the text of the 1897 First Edition.

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A very entertaining read! There are some instances where I felt a cold chill of terror run down my spine, but it's overall a fun experience. The language isn't the easiest to follow in parts where the author tries to write as phonetically accurate as possible, or when Van Helsing gives his extended and excited opinions. It's a product of it's time, and one very well worth reading.

Cláudia Mateus

Marija

It was a bit weird to read a book you know so much about, and still be pleasantly suprised on every page. <img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1451130757ra/17510273.gif" class="gr-hostedUserImg">

Dracula (The Classic Collection)

It’s a fantastic book, but the ending was anticlimactic for me.

Jana Fossi

The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker 'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window' A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he makes a horrifying discovery. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the arrival of his 'Master', while a determined group of adversaries prepares to face the terrifying Count. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Sinny

We are so accustomed to all the Dracula and vampire movies/books, that when you read the original one you feel a little disappointment, since the character itself doesn’t actively appear throughout the whole book. He has some appearances, but not as many as one would wish. Still a very standout book, and I get all the praise it receives.

Greg Talbot

Bela Lugosi's dracula never lured me as the definitive caricuture of the monster. Not to disparage his Universal Monster fim, Count Chocula, or any product of his mythology, but Bram Stoker's dracula is in my mind a much more disturbing portrait. The movies "Nosferatu" (1922) or Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu the Vampyre" have the haunted quality that interested me so much in this book. The book is about the journey of Johnathon Harker to Transylvania, at least for the first 60 pages. and Harker's academic cerebral understanding to the terrifying experience he has with the Count is worthy of being read as it's own story. The command of the foreign land, the baying of wolves, the unsettling forests and the Count's strangeness; all of this reminds me of H.P. Lovecraft's exploration of the unknown realm of of world. The book becomes something of a horror/mystery from here. Two young women Mina Murray and Lucy Wesenra are on precipice of new husbands, new lives and fulfilling their dreams. And of course the unsettling comes to them. Johnthon's unspeakable absence, an abandoned ship of mysterious cargo, Lucy's succoming to illnes, and the mental illness ramblings of Dr. Seward's Reinfeld. All these events take place, and put the book into motion, having all the characters take on the meaning of these preternatural events. Stoker's emotional range is vast here. At times he uses the lofty language of Shakespeare ("this way lies madness" (p.13), "sympathesize with poor Desdemona" (p.60)). The vocabulary thicket bored me at times, but that says a lot more about me as a reader, and the modern era. His examination of the women, their views of matrimony, and their exposure to the book to the dark sexual usurpations of the Count, gives the novel a lot of power about the topic of sex, consent and agency. The men, who are forced from their moral high ground into murky activites like exhuming a body in a cemetary and toying with the idea of having to destroy a woman's body (granted she is un-dead). As the novel progresses, we see the coaliation building. And the team goes from deep despair, Dr. Seward says he is "sick of the world and all in it", to an attitude of courage, as the team decides their only way forward is to fight the evil presence. The ending left me feeling a little dissapointed....I guess after seeing too many Marvel movies, you just expect a few rocket launchers and firestorms. Still it ends justly, soundly and fairly. Dracula is not an easy read, but well worth your time. I think it's worthy of good horror and good mystery.

Dracula (Vintage Classics)

Tim Pendry

A seminal cultural text - brilliantly written. What more is there to say other than to advise you to read it and enjoy its dark pleasures.

I can only describe this book as a Chaotic Gothic Horror. For it to be called Dracula we sure dont know much abt the dude. At times I found the story of the secondary characters redundant and unnecessary. It was good but it's one of the classics that I won't be rereading. 

Tsu 💙

It was solid but it took a minuteeeeee to get interesting. It’s already a thick book so I think a lot of it could’ve been cut back. But I did like the letter/diary entry format. It always makes me feel like I’m reading other people’s private business. 

soph 

It's a vibe and then it drags on, no wonder I gave up on the first try. And definitely not a feminist book!!

martian1138

jay bee

It lived up to its reputation! Reading it after being into vampires my entire life it was fun to find and see what aspects inspired others. It certainly inspired me

Florence

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of people led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, gothic fiction, and invasion literature. The novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film, and television interpretations.

Bram Stokers Books 1897 Paperback Dracuka Novel Dracular

Probablya 3, but gave it 3,5 for some very vibrant, atmospheric parts. Sometimes during the first half I have to say I experienced it as being too long or meandering. A classic is a classic, so for me that has to be judged on its own scale, and as far as this one goes a very good one. A lot of aspects of the book is very of it's time ofc (in terms of religiosity, morality and some frank racism). Not as bad as some, better than most in that regard (as in, written before the 1900's). Suspenseful and charismatic. 

Tove Söderberg

So I planned to read this during October as a little Halloween book, but I also started uni so it’s ok lmao.

This story was incredibly intriguing, I loved the characters so much, especially my lovely girl Mina, and the way you get to experience the story through all the diary entries of the characters, the newspaper articles etc. 

Although I expected to learn more about Dracula himself and also the ending felt a bit rushed on the last pages, it was so, so good.

Valentina

So I planned to read this during October as a little Halloween book, but I also started uni so it’s ok lmao.

This story was incredibly intriguing, I loved the characters so much, especially my lovely girl Mina, and the way you get to experience the story through all the diary entries of the characters, the newspaper articles etc. 

Although I expected to learn more about Dracula himself and also the ending felt a bit rushed on the last pages, it was so, so good.

Finally finished. No clue why this took me two months to finish? Extremely odd bro. But. What a book. You can clearly see how our version of Dracula that we use in our movies and books and stuff stems directly from this gross pale thin white creature. Honestly the way Dracula is described in this made me feel sick and I really felt for Jonathan harker because Dracula just sounded so gross and he just seemed like he smelt so bad 💀 Stoker definitely needed a lesson on how to condense his story a little bit because why was this book 450 pages with the tiniest font possible? I feel like twenty percent of the plot could have been completely eradicated and wouldn’t have impacted the book, perceptions or end point at all. Also, there was quite a lot of characters in this, which is fairs but I’d hardly recommend having so many characters because it starts to get so confusing. Also, the way it’s narrated through journal entries and letters for the entire book is quite interesting too, honestly I’ve seen other gothic novellas like Frankenstein incorporate letters but not for the entire book, I don’t know whether I like it or not but it’s quite a unique way of narrating it. I’m not giving its rating because I always struggle to rate classics because of their different writing style and form. 

Dracula A Play in Two Acts

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