The Essential Dracula

The complete text (including the 'missing' first chapter, "Dracula's Guest") of Bram Stoker's original novel, fully annotated with thousands of fascinating facts and legends about Dracula, Transylvania, and vampires... everything you ever wanted to know about literature's most infamous Count."The Essential Dracula" also includes:A major new essay by Leonard Wolf that provides background on Stoker's classic, examines the cultural history of the Dracula myth, and traces the literary history of the vampire novel from John Polidori's "The Vampyre" (1819) to Anne Rice's "The Vampire Lestat" (1985)...A selected filmography of major vampire films, from F.W. Murnau's silent classic "Nosferatu" (1922) to Francis Ford Coppola's blockbuster "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992)...Commentary by leading contemporary horror writers, including Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch and many more...Over 35 illustration, including stunning new Dracula illustrations by Christopher Bing..."The Essential Dracula" is the most complete and comprehensive edition of the world's greatest horror story.