This is the classic, hypnotic story of the undead creatures of the night--and the human lives they touch--as they relentlessly seek to satiate an accursed craving for their only sustenance: human blood. A Gothic novel of immense proportions, "Dracula" has only strengthened its grip on the public over the course of the last century.

15th-century warrior Vlad goes off the fight the Turks. Upon his return, he finds that his wife Elisabeta, hearing he was dead, has killed herself. Maddened by this injustice, Vlad curses God, and becomes the immortal blood-eating fiend known as Count Dracula--for centuries. When English attorney Jonathan Harker journeys to Dracula's castle, the Count sees a photograph of his fiancaee, Mina Murray. Dracula's patience has been rewarded--Elisabeta lives...

For more than 125 years he has been the stuff of both nightmares and fantasies—a dark, powerful, irresistible force and bringer of terror, death, and eternal damnation. His name is known throughout the world, as is his story, which has been told and retold and expanded upon countless times, with no end in sight. He is Count Dracula, the king vampire, brought to literary life—or is it undeath?—by Irish author Bram Stoker with the publication

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Chronicles the history of Vlad the Impaler's fifteenth-century Transylvanian residence, Bran Castle, from medieval times through the twentieth century.