Dracula

Published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s novel begins with solicitor Jonathan Harker’s business visit to Count Dracula’s castle in Transylvania, where unsettling encounters and unexplained wounds point to a supernatural danger. After Harker escapes, a friend’s strange illness brings the threat into his home country and sets a vampire hunt in motion. The shift from an isolated fortress to a widening pursuit gives the story its central shape: a private encounter becomes a larger struggle against Dracula. Its mix of Gothic horror, supernatural mystery, and pursuit makes the novel a defining work of vampire fiction.