Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful,ancient vampire,the Penguin Classics edition of Dracula is edited with notes and an introduction by Maurice Hindle,as well as a preface by Christopher Frayling.
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house,he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards,disturbing incidents unfold in England: a ship runs aground on the shores of Whitby,its crew vanished; beautiful Lucy Westenra slowly succumbs to a mysterious,wasting illness,her blood drained away; and the lunatic Renfield raves about the imminent arrival of his'master'.
In the ensuing battle of wills between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries - led by the intrepid vampire hunter Abraham van Helsing - Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre,probing into questions of identity,sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141439846Number of pages: 512Weight: 351 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
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'One of the most powerful horror tales ever written'- Malcolm Bradbury
'Nobody has ever filmed it like Bram Stoker wrote it'- Sir Christopher Lee
'Staggeringly lurid and perverse'- Sarah Waters
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