Dracula

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Count Dracula sleeps in a silent tomb beneath his desolate castle. His eyes are stony and his cheeks are deathly pale. But on his lips, there is a mocking smile-and a trickle of fresh blood. He has been dead for centuries, yet he may never die . . . Here begins the most celebrated vampire story in history, a tale of age-old evil that is forever new. With its haunting mix of suspense and horror, Bram Stoker's Dracula is a novel of compelling power. Reader, be warned- Once you enter Castle Dracula, you might not escape its baleful spell-even after you close this book . . . With an Introduction by Leonard Wolf and an Afterword by Jeffrey Meyers

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Stoker gives us the most remarkable scenes of horror...each is unforgettable, and no movie has quite done justice to any of them.Stephen King

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Abraham 'Bram' Stoker was born in Dublin on 8 November 1847. He graduated in Mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin in 1867 and then worked as a civil servant. In 1878 he married Florence Balcombe. He later moved to London and became business manager of his friend Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre. He wrote several sensational novels including novels The Snake's Pass (1890), Dracula (1897), The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). Bram Stoker died on 20 April 1912.