Dracula is a singular through Bram Stoker, posted in 1897. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no unmarried protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a enterprise experience to stay on the fortress of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small organization, led via Abraham Van Helsing, hunt Dracula and, ultimately, kill him.

Dracula was generally written in the Nineties. Stoker produced over one hundred pages of notes for the unconventional, drawing significantly from Transylvanian folklore and history. Some pupils have counseled that the individual of Dracula turned into inspired by using historical figures just like the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler or the countess Elizabeth Báthory, but there's massive war of words. Stoker's notes mention neither discern. He determined the name Dracula in Whitby's public library even as holidaying there, picking it because he thought it meant devil in Romanian.