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Bram Stoker's "Dracula"

by Jan Needle, Bram Stoker

Can there be a more terrifying and seductive tale than this? The story of the notorious vampire Count Dracula, lord of the undead, who rises from his coffin at night to suck the blood of the living is, undoubtedly, the stuff of nightmares.
Narrated from several different viewpoints, Dracula is a complex story that many know but few have actually read. Jan Needle's newly edited... (more)

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(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)

The CCLaP 100: In which I read a hundred so-called "classic" books, then write reports on whether or not I think they deserve the label

Book #13: Dracula, by Bram Stoker (1897)

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I had hoped Dracula would be much like Frankenstein, in the respect that it would explore deep themes such as jealousy, responsibility, revenge. For the most part, this seemed simply to be a vampire story, and only that.

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  • Vivek C

    vivek c said:

    Really horrifying

    posted Friday, January 11 2008
  • 1804*C^T

    1804*c^t said:

    i read this book....very very very very nice...and i also saw the movie they made out of this,,,stellar

    posted Monday, December 3 2007

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