Cover via Open Library
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with English solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Revealing his true nature as a vampire, Dracula moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. Harker joins a group led by Abraham Van Helsing who hunt and kill the Count.
From Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vivek’s Notes
Introduces us to a notorious Transylvanian gentleman with a frightening penchant for an iron-rich diet. It begins: "Jonathan Harker's Journal 3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late."
Featured in LQL
- First lines in horror novels · GW6 · Easy100% answered
