Bram Stoker's iconic novel 'Dracula' begins with a young man, Jonathan Harker, arriving in Transylvania where he has an appointment to keep with a certain Count Dracula. The count is looking for a London home and Jonathan, who has the details of a large house that might suit Dracula, is keen to make the count's acquaintance and visit him in his castle. However, the Transylvanian locals, who are terrified of the count, try to warn Jonathan about the wiseness of his visit, and when Jonathan arrives at Count Dracula's castle and finds himself practically a prisoner of his strange host, he begins to wish that he had listened to them. Meanwhile back in England, Jonathan's fiancee, Mina Harker, is staying in Whitby with her friend Lucy Westenra, when a series of unusual and discomfiting events occur which include an unmanned ship with the dead captain lashed to the wheel being wrecked during a violent storm; Lucy being found sleepwalking in a churchyard where she comes into contact with a tall, dark, mysterious figure; and the appearance of some strange puncture marks on Lucy's neck that will not heal. And in a lunatic asylum run by Lucy's doctor friend, an inmate tells of the imminent arrival of his 'Master'...
Dramatic, claustrophobic, full of gothic tropes and touching on themes such as: love, religion, feudal aristocracy, promiscuity, female sexuality, the pitting of primitive forces against modern and so forth, this novel - which is told entirely in the form of letters and journals - pulls the reader in from the very first pages and keeps us involved from beginning to end. It is true that this is not my preferred genre of literature and I did find aspects of the book to be overly dramatic and so on, but I have to admit to being gripped by parts of this story and having had this novel on my 'to read list' for years and years, I'm really glad that I've finally got around to reading it.
4 Stars.
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