This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic™ includes a glossary and notes to help the modern reader appreciate Stoker's allusions, rich vocabulary, and Victorian setting.

An apparently routine business venture becomes a battle for a young man's very soul. Almost too late, Jonathan Harker realizes that the charismatic and seductive Count Dracula of Transylvania has come to England with a purpose much more sinister than merely to purchase an English estate. Will the Count succeed in his quest to create a race of blood-lusting creatures of the night?

Which will prove the stronger—superstition or science? Defiantly challenging Victorian conventions, Bram Stoker's Dracula examines the nature of evil and arrives at the horrific conclusion that the forces which would destroy humanity are not lurking in the shadows of the night, but within the human soul.

Modern readers still find that their own most-cherished nightmares are evoked by Lucy's and Mina's battle against succumbing to the seductive enticements of the soulless vampire.

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Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula, Prince Kretzulesco

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Thoughtless Feelings

do you cry at night
do you wonder why
do you sit awake and think
do you ask yourself
do you imagine yourself different
do you change your point of view
do you see yourself through another's eyes
do you get disgusted and try to hide
do you change your ways
do you no longer care
do you finally give in to their stares
but now that you've changed
now that they know you're there
can you really be sure they care
do you honestly thing you fit in
do you really think you belong

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Miss Toronto Tourism not welcoming Wiccans

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Vampire Fraud

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