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1897 novel by Bram Stoker

This article is about the novel. For the character, see Count Dracula.For the ruler of Wallachia, see Vlad the Impaler. For other uses, see Dracula (disambiguation).

Dracula is a 1897 Gothichorror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles.

It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle 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 group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, investigate and hunt the vampire.

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Dracula was mostly written in the 1890s. Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from Transylvanian folklore and history. Some scholars have suggested that the character of Dracula was inspired by Count Dracula - Wikipedia ZACY