Dracula

Stoker's epistolary Gothic: journals, letters, and telegrams assemble the vampire's hunt from Transylvania to Whitby.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Bram Stoker

type

Gothic horror novel

era

Late Victorian (1897)

language

English

setting

Transylvania, Whitby, and London

parts

27 chapters

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Published in 1897 as an assembly of diaries, letters, and clippings.
• Stoker drew on Balkan vampire folklore and Whitby's library shelves.
• Its Count fixed the vampire archetype for modern mass culture.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Dracula