Dracula

The Original 1897 Gothic Horror Classic

The original 1897 text of Bram Stoker's gothic horror masterpiece—with a critical afterword by philosopher and writer Henry Bugalho.

"I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome..."

In the shadow of the Carpathian Mountains, a young English solicitor arrives at a crumbling castle to meet his mysterious client. What Jonathan Harker discovers there will shatter everything he believed about the boundaries between life and death, desire and dread, the civilized world and the darkness that hungers at its edges.

Bram Stoker's Dracula is the novel that invented the modern vampire and launched over a century of imitations, adaptations, and reimaginings. Yet no adaptation has ever captured the full power of Stoker's original vision: a tale told through journal entries, letters, and telegrams, as a band of unlikely heroes races to stop an ancient evil from conquering Victorian England.

With an original critical afterword by Henry Bugalho

This edition features an exclusive afterword by philosopher and writer Henry Bugalho, exploring what lies beneath the novel's surface: the obsessive vocabulary of obligation and desire, the two women whose fates reveal Victorian anxieties about female sexuality, the Count who never speaks in his own voice, and the question the novel asks but cannot answer—what happens when the boundaries that define the self begin to dissolve?

What makes this edition essential:

This carefully formatted edition presents the complete, unabridged 1897 text as Stoker wrote it. No modernizations, no abridgments—just the gothic masterpiece that has haunted readers for over 125 years, with clean formatting for comfortable reading on any device.

What's included:

✦ The complete original text of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel
✦ An exclusive critical afterword offering fresh perspectives on the novel's hidden meanings
✦ A biographical essay on Bram Stoker's mysterious life and his decades-long service to the actor Henry Irving

Perfect for:

• Readers discovering Dracula for the first time
• Fans of gothic horror, vampire fiction, and Victorian literature
• Students seeking the original text with critical analysis
• Anyone who loves dark classics that still have the power to disturb

More than a horror novel. More than a vampire story. Dracula is a meditation on desire and domination, on the terror of losing yourself to another, on the thin membrane between the living and the Un-Dead.

Enter freely, and of your own will.