‘Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window’ — few opening terrors in English literature have proved as enduring as those found in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, presented here in the Penguin English Library Edition. When solicitor’s clerk Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to assist the mysterious Count Dracula in purchasing a London property, his mounting dread signals the beginning of something far darker. The horror that follows him back to England takes many forms: a crewless vessel runs aground at Whitby under inexplicable circumstances, a young woman is found bearing strange wounds on her neck, and a man confined to a lunatic asylum speaks obsessively of his approaching ‘Master’. Against this creeping dread, a resolute band of allies resolves to confront the Count — and the ancient evil he represents. Beyond its terrors, the novel casts a searching light on the repressed desires of the Victorian age, making it as psychologically rich as it is frightening. The Penguin English Library — 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
ISBN 13: 9780141199337
Author: Bram Stoker
