Dracula

Resumen del libro

Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window'

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. 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 imminent arrival of his Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing deeply into questions of human identity and sanity, and illuminating dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

For this completely updated edition, Maurice Hindle has revised his introduction, list of further reading and textual notes, and added two new appendices: Stoker's essay on censorship and his interview with Winston Churchill, both published in 1908. Christopher Frayling's preface discusses Stoker's significance and the influences that contributed to his creation of the Dracula myth.

Biografía del autor

Bram Stoker, seudónimo de Abraham Stoker, fue escritor y crítico teatral. Se licenció con honores en Matemáticas y Ciencias. En 1876 se marchó como secretario y representante del actor inglés sir Henry Irving, con quien dirigió el Lyceum Theatre de Londres. Fue socio del actor hasta que éste murió en 1905. Escribió numerosos libros, entre los que podemos encontrar Recuerdos personales de Henry Irving (1906) y su obra maestra, Drácula (1897), en la que creó el renombrado personaje del vampiro, que ha trascendido en el tiempo y se ha convertido en un clásico en su género.