Dracula  by Bram Stoker

First published in the year 1897, the present gothic novel ‘Dracula’ by Irish author Bram Stoker introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. It tells the story of Dracula’s attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.