Dracula
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the ‘Master’ and his imminent arrival.
In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
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Jenn Thornley –
A really enthusiastic discussion at this month’s meeting. This book was definitely a tougher challenge than we are used to, but we also felt more of an achievement having finished the book and we enjoyed it a lot more than we had anticipated. The book was obviously written for a different time and although some of the language was difficult to understand, we enjoyed the simplicity of the story, without the twists and turns a modern author would have added and how everything was black and white, no grey areas. We were also impressed with how progressive the author was when creating Mina, and her relationship with Jonathan was also quite modern. Although we thought we knew the story, we were surprised by the ending and were kept guessing until the very end.
Overall we rated Dracula 3.79 stars