Bram Stoker
Dracula
Told through diaries, letters, telegrams and newspaper cuttings, Bram Stoker’s novel follows the young solicitor Jonathan Harker to Count Dracula’s castle in Transylvania, and the Count’s arrival in England. As Lucy Westenra sickens and Mina Harker is threatened, Professor Van Helsing leads a small band of friends in a desperate pursuit back to the Carpathians.
Read the full textThe historical Dracula
Fifteenth-century accounts of Vlad III Dracula, prince of Wallachia, whose name Stoker found in Wilkinson’s book on Wallachia. Newly translated into English, with introductions and notes on Wallachia, Vlad and the Order of the Dragon.
- The Tale of Dracula the Voivode Translated from the Global Medieval Sourcebook transcription (Stanford University). Shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Wallachia and Vlad Dracula, from the Histories
- Vlad Dracula and Wallachia, from the Commentaries
Introductions and critical essays about Dracula by Bram Stoker
Public-domain introductions, prefaces and criticism from early editions and early critics of the novel.
- From The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
- From The Tale of Terror
- From The Vampire: His Kith and Kin
Sources used by Bram Stoker in planning and writing Dracula
Public-domain books and articles the author is known to have drawn on while writing the novel.