Dracula By Bram Stoker (Paperback, 2011)

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&it was butcher workthe horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form & lips of bloody foam& Bram Stoker&s 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London the very heart of the British Empire Only a handful of men & women stand between Dracula & his long-cherished goal but they are vulnerable & weak against the cunning & supernatural powers of the Count & his legions As the horrifying story unfolds in the diaries & letters of young Jonathan Harker Lucy Mina & Dr Seward Dracula will be victorious unless his nemesis Professor Van Helsing can persuade them that monsters still lurk in the era of electric light The most famous of all vampire stories Dracula is a mirror of its age its underlying themes of race religion science superstition & sexuality never far from the surface A compelling read rattling along at break-neck speed it is a modern classic This new edition

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