Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor, visits Count Dracula at his castle in the Carpathian Mountains to help the Count purchase a house near London. Ignoring the Count's … See more

Composition
Prior to writing the novel, Stoker researched extensively, assembling over 100 pages of notes, … See more

Narrative
As an epistolary novel, Dracula is narrated through a series of documents. The novel's first four chapters are related as the journals of Jonathan Harker. Scholar David Seed notes that Harker's accounts function as an … See more

Author
As the acting manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, Bram Stoker was a recognisable figure: he would greet evening guests, and … See more

Gender and sexuality
Academic analyses of Dracula as sexually charged have become so frequent that a cottage industry has … See more

Upon publication, Dracula was well received. Reviewers frequently compared the novel to other Gothic writers, and mentions of novelist See more

Adaptations
The story of Dracula has been the basis for numerous films and plays. Stoker himself wrote the first … See more