Dracula (9780141199337)

The penguin english library edition of dracula by bram stoker

‘alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for ı can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window’

A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, dracula also illuminated dark corners of victorian sexuality. When jonathan harker visits transylvania to advise count dracula on a london home, he makes a horrifying discovery. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in england: An unmanned ship is wrecked at whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman’s neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the arrival of his ‘master’, while a determined group of adversaries prepares to face the terrifying count.

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