Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics ‘ We are in Transylvania; & Transylvania is not England Our ways are not your ways & there shall be to you many strange things’ Earnest & naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian Mountains Through notes & diary entries Harker keeps track of the horrors & terrors that beset him at the castle telling his fiance Mina of the Count’s supernatural powers & his own imprisonment Although Harker eventually manages to escape & reunite with Mina his experiences have led to a mental breakdown of sorts Meanwhile in England Mina’s friend Lucy has been bitten & begins to turn into a vampire With the help of Professor Van Helsing a previous suitor of Lucy’s Seward & Lucy’s fiance Holmwood attempt to thwart Count Dracula & his attempts on Lucy & consequently Mina’s life Arguably the most enduring Gothic novel of the 19th Century Bram Stoker’s Dracula is as chilling today in its depiction of the vampire world & its exploration of Victorian values as it was at its time of publication