Dracula

When the young solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to a remote castle in the Carpathian Mountains to help a mysterious nobleman purchase property in England, he slowly realizes he is less a guest than a prisoner—and that his host, Count Dracula, is something far older and hungrier than a man. Harker's ordeal is only the beginning. Soon the Count reaches England, and a strange wasting illness begins to claim the people around Harker's fiancée, Mina, and her friend Lucy.

As the mystery deepens, a small circle of friends comes together under the guidance of the Dutch physician and scholar Abraham Van Helsing, who recognizes the ancient evil for what it is. Piecing together the truth from letters, journals, and telegrams, they set out to destroy the vampire before he can spread his curse further.

Told entirely through diary entries, letters, and news clippings, Bram Stoker's 1897 masterpiece fixed the modern image of the vampire and remains one of the defining works of Gothic horror. It is a story of dread, faith, science, and desire that has haunted readers for more than a century.