Dracula

Published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has never ceased to captivate and unsettle generations of readers, establishing itself as the founding myth of the entire modern vampire canon.It all begins with a business trip: the young lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to a remote castle in the Carpathian Mountains to finalize a real estate deal in London. But his host, the enigmatic Count, conceals an ancient and ravenous nature, ready to unleash itself upon the heart of the British Empire.Constructed through diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings, the novel envelops the reader in mounting tension, where each voice adds a piece to the horror. Stoker masterfully weaves together the Gothic and the modern, superstition and science, desire and terror, creating a work that still speaks today to our deepest fears: the unknown, the seduction of the forbidden, and the fragility of reason.