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Published in 1897, Dracula is Bram Stoker's classic Gothic novel of horror and romance.
This edition of Dracula was published by the Easton Press as part of a three volume set including Frankenstein and The Phantom of the Opera.

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

Between 1879 and 1898, Stoker was a business manager for the Lyceum Theatre in London, where he supplemented his income by writing many sensational novels, his most successful being the vampire tale Dracula published on 26 May 1897. Parts of it are set around the town of Whitby, where he spent summer holidays.

Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, authors such as H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells wrote many tales in which fantastic creatures threatened the British Empire. Invasion literature was at a peak, and Stoker's formula was very familiar by 1897 to readers of fantastic adventure stories, of an invasion of England by continental European influences. Victorian readers enjoyed Dracula as a good adventure story like many others, but it did not reach its legendary status until later in the 20th century when film versions began to appear.

Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent seven years researching European folklore and stories of vampires, being most influenced by Emily Gerard's 1885 essay "Transylvania Superstitions" which includes content about a vampire myth. Some historians are convinced that a historic figure, Vlad III Dracula, often called Vlad the Impaler, was the model for Stoker's Count although there is no supporting evidence. Stoker borrowed only "scraps of miscellaneous information", according to one expert, about this bloodthirsty tyrant of Wallachia and there are no comments about him in Stoker's working notes. Dracula scholar Elizabeth Miller has remarked that aside from the name and some mention of Romanian history, the background of Stoker's Count bears no resemblance to that of Vlad III Dracula. From 1890 to 1897 Stoker was a member of the London Library, where markings in Sabine Baring-Gould's “Book of Were-Wolves”, Thomas Browne's “Pseudodoxica Epidemica”, AF Crosse's “Round About the Carpathians” and Charles Boner's “Transylvania” are attributed to Stoker's research for Dracula.

Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, gothic fiction, and invasion literature. The novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film, and television interpretations.

Dracula was first published in London in May 1897 by Archibald Constable and Company. Costing six shillings, the novel was bound in yellow cloth and titled in red letters. It was copyrighted in the United States in 1899 with the publication by Doubleday & McClure of New York. But when Universal Studios purchased the rights, it came to light that Bram Stoker had not complied with a portion of US copyright law, placing the novel into the public domain. In the United Kingdom and other countries following the Berne Convention on copyrights, the novel was under copyright until April 1962, fifty years after Stoker's death.

Dracula was not an immediate bestseller when it was first published, although reviewers were unstinting in their praise. The contemporary Daily Mail ranked Stoker's powers above those of Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

Also published by the Easton Press as part of the Collector's Library of Famous Editions (1965 red leather) and the 13 volume Horror Classics Library including:
Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - Ambrose Bierce
The Birds and other Stories - Daphne Du Maurier
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Monkey's Paw & Other Tales of Mystery and The Macabre - W. W. Jacobs
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - M. R. James
In A Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
Phantom of The Opera - Gaston LeRoux
At The Mountains Of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H. G. Wells

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