Las de Bram Stoker y Jonathan Haker fueron vidas paralelas. Stoker era el secretario particular de Henry Irving, un reputado actor shakespeariano y propietario del Lyceum Theatre de Londres; Harker, el del enigmatico conde Dracula, quien lo convoco a su castillo de Transilvania para negociar la adquisicion de una mansion en Londres. No es casual que el personaje de Dracula se inspire en las facciones e idiosincrasia de Irving, ni que stoker hiciese...

Presents the text of the 1897 novel about the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, who is revealed as a vampire, and includes a selection of background and source materials, as well as seven critical essays

Dracula: Legendary vampire Count Dracula kidnaps a young English lawyer and travels to London to woo the lawyer's fiancée and spread terror; a scientist strives to make the perfect man in a laboratory but instead creates a bitter monster who seeks revenge on his creator and his family Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young...