Dracula - Bram Stoker

Dracula

By Bram Stoker

  • Release Date: 1897-05-26
  • Genre: Horror
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 8,582 Ratings

Description

An Apple Books Classic edition.

Few characters have seized readers’ imaginations quite like Count Dracula of Transylvania, the hero of Bram Stoker’s classic. The 1897 novel put vampires front and center on the cultural map, providing direct inspiration for an entire subgenre of bloodsucker fiction - including blockbusters like theTwilight series and Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles - and spawning hundreds of movie adaptations!

Stoker’s novel is a thrill ride, following Dracula as he moves from Transylvania to England in search of fresh blood, while a small but dedicated group attempts to thwart him. Want more Stoker? Check out his great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker’s 2018 novel, Dracul.

Reviews

  • Spooky Mystery that Culminated with Suspenseful Adventure

    5
    By joamapan
    I loved that Dracula was told through multiple journals, letters, telegrams, legal documents, and newspaper clippings. It leaves the reader clear clues as to what Count Dracula is up to while the individual characters aren’t privy to all the same knowledge. The narrative devices used feel incredibly modern for a book written in the 19th century. When all the players eventually learn all the reader is privy to, the story culminates with a grand adventure across Europe, a race against time and evil, the to the exciting and satisfying conclusion.
  • Amazing horror novel

    5
    By Eternaljourney
    A must read if you really love the unbelievable
  • Great writing

    5
    By Dyhcfyhxtj Stacey s
    Great build from suspense to climax over and over again until a satisfying end. A little dismissive of female characters but as to be expected at the time.
  • At times, Thrilling

    3
    By Amanda J. Green
    I was captured by the majority of this novel and only at times did I have to "force" my interest in it. A little long. 400 pages would have sufficed.
  • A gothic winter masterpiece ❄️

    5
    By ajmalness
    Cold, dark, winter. I never knew the ending. But it was wonderful to keep me in suspense all novel long. I enjoyed how the novel consistently has a cold feeling, as if a cold breeze is blowing on a snowy mountain road, and you're in a carriage, tightly holding your coat.
  • Bran Stoker’s Dracula

    5
    By Rick2714
    A masterpiece. Plot. Dialogue. Story. Excellent.
  • One of my favorites

    5
    By kayweezy509
    I have read this book several times and watched the movie too many times to count. Highly recommend.
  • The Horror of "Dracula"

    2
    By 🔪👬
    Spoilers: In my opinion, Dracula, as a horror book, fails to be consistently scary, or even entertaining. There are fun moments, such as Jonathan Harker exploring Dracula's castle, and the Demeter scene. But that's really it. Lucy's sickness goes on far too long for me to care, Mina is forced to drink Dracula's blood, but never gets sick, and the vampires are barely a threat. Lucy and Dracula are literally powerless in the face of a crucifix, which every character has, making them completely unthreatening as villains, something not helped by the fact that they're barely in the book at all. Vampire Mina is killed off the day our protagonist's meet her, and Dracula only does one important thing after Chapter 3. Drinking Mina's blood, which as I said, amounts to nothing. The narration, while being cool in concept, fails to convey suspense. Even when Quincy Morris is fatally wounded, and kills Dracula, the narration comes off completely bored and matter-of-fact, an issue further amplified by the fact that the characters themselves are supposed to have written this book. And yet, the narration of this book has no character. Finally, the characters are not unique. Dracula and his brides have no depth, and our protagonist's are all basically the same as their friends of the same gender, with the exception of Van Helsing and Renfield. Van Helsing is especially kind towards Arthur, as he looks like what his dead son would've, but that's dropped after they kill Lucy. Quincy is the only American, and is said to have done bad things, but his character doesn't exhibit any traits to show he's different to the upstanding British. Seward treats the mentally ill, but that job is more so a way to introduce Renfield to the plot than anything else. And all three are in love with Lucy, but only Arthur seems to heavily grieve her. Overall, the book is bland, and the only enjoyment I got out of it came from picking up on vampire cliches that, in my opinion, were done better in other media.
  • Dracula

    5
    By reference fresh
    Worth the commitment
  • Book review

    5
    By Riff gunfights
    This is a good book and I liked it a lot.