Dracula

After a visit to Whitby in 1890, Stoker began writing a horror novel composed of letters, journal entries, telegrams, ships' logs and newspaper clippings. His story gave form to what is now the universal myth of the blood-sucking, immortal, Transylvanian aristocrat, pitted against the redoubtable Professor Abraham Van Helsing.





A new Faber Classics edition of the powerfully influential horror novel.



Abraham Stoker (1847-1912), known as Bram, was the son of an Irish civil servant. He was the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, where he worked with the formidable impresario Henry Irving, one of the models for the Count. In his spare time, Stoker wrote short stories and novels, by far the most popular of which was Dracula.