Product Description

Arriving at Castle Dracula, the vast ruined home of a Transylvanian nobleman, a young English visitor finds himself thrust into a realm of sensation and horror beyond his most nightmarish dreams. His experiences give rise to an urgent campaign to destroy the vampire count, to eliminate Dracula's cult of the living dead, and to triumph over a centuries-old evil. Bram Stoker's masterpiece is a thriller of such hypnotic intensity that it has captured millions of readers around the world and inspired its own literature and mythology of the supernatural. This beautiful new edition includes a foreword by Elizabeth Kostova, the internationally bestselling author of THE HISTORIAN.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43938 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 448 pages

About the Author
Bram Stoker was born in Dublin. He wrote nineteen books and is best known for Dracula, which has been a perennial bestseller since its original publication in 1897.

Customer Reviews

Scarily good!
I started reading this unsure of what to expect...and had finished it within 3 days, as I was unable to put it down! It goes almost straight into the story and the action starts immediately. It is also interesting that the book is written completely in letters, journal entries and so forth. The characters are interesting, especially the count himself, and it seems quite real at times (I found myself closing all my windows and checking my room for vampires).

My only complaint was that I found that the book ended quite abruptly...the story was excellent and it prepared me for a huge, wonderful ending...and then never presented it. The book ended awfully suddenly in comparison to the rest of the book which was excellent.
HOWEVER despite this, I still recommend this as its a great read and the book looks great with the red cover. Recommended :)

"For the dead travel fast"
Surprisingly "Denn die Toten reiten schnell" or "For the dead travel fast" is more than an opening line to this tale of love in the dangerous moon light. After watching several Drac movies and a few Nosferatu's, I pretty much though I had a handle on the genera. Little did I know what a wonderful world of mystery and suspense that Bram Stoker opened up for me.

The story is told mostly third party though the papers, diaries, and phonograph recordings (on wax calendars) of those people involve in a tale so bizarre that it almost defies belief. The general story line is that of a Count that plans to move to a more urban setting (from Borgo Pass to London) where there is a richer diet. There he finds succulent women; something he can sing his teeth in. Unfortunately for him a gang of ruffians (including a real-estate agent, asylum director, Texas cowboy and an Old Dutch abnormal psychologist) is out to detour his nocturnal munching. They think they have Drac on the run but with a wing and a prayer he is always one step ahead.

Of more value to the reader is the rich prose chosen by Stoker as he describes the morals and technology of the time. We have to come to grips with or decide if we can perform the rituals that are required to eliminate vampires verses the impropriety of opening graves and staking loved ones. The powers in the book differ from the movie versions in that they are more of persuasion and capabilities to manipulate the local weather. At one point the Dutch Dr. Van Helsing, is so overwhelmed by a beautiful vampire laying in the grave that he almost for gets why he is there and may become vamp chow.

All in all the story is more in the cunning chase. And the question as to will they succeed or will Dracula triumph. Remember "For the dead travel fast."

A great edition of a classic
My vampiric interest stems from watching all those Hammer Horror films that always seemed to be on television when I was a child. Dracula was one of those books that I always intended to get around to one day and now I am really glad to have read it. The story is so much better than any of the hundreds of movies it spawned. Written entirely as letters and diary entries of the principle characters, telegrams and newspaper cuttings this book never drops off the pace from Harkers trip to Transylvania to the final chapter when the last of many surprises is that the Count does not actually die from a stake through the heart!, it really is "unputdownable". Should you be tempted to curl up with this splendid piece of horror I recommend this edition as it is one of those volumes that is perfectly designed from the blood red dust jacket to the size and qualtiy of the book itself. A great edition of a classic book.