DraculaAuthor:Bram Stoker (1847-1912), a fan and friend of playwright Henry Irving, wrote dramatic criticisms and rave reviews of Irving's work for local newspapers and eventually became business manager of Henry Irving's Theater Lyceum. During these years he wrote his greatest novel, Dracula. Stoker wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays and lectures, but Dracula is by far his most famous work and perhaps his best-known horror novel. Summer: Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, is sent to the Eastern European country of Transylvania to close a real estate transaction with Count Dracula. But he ends up discovering that the count is actually a vampire and runs away. As Dracula the vampire successfully reaches London, he transforms Lucy, a friend of Harker's fiancée Mina, into a vampire that her fiancé must finally destroy with the help of the expert Professor Van Helsing. The men decide to hunt down the vampire while Harker joins them. Unfortunately, Mina is attacked and slowly begins to transform into a vampire as they manage to track down the boxes that the count uses as a refuge at night. They sterilize the boxes, forcing the count to return to Transylvania. They separate and follow the count across land and sea. They eventually kill the female vampires in the castle and kill the count just before he reaches his castle so Mina is saved. Comments: This book is said to be considered one of the most famous horror novels, if not the most famous. The gothic descriptions in the novel are very important in the beginning. The depiction of the Transylvanian countryside, Dracula's ruined castle, etc., all provide the effect of horror in the sense of a spooky and gloomy atmosphere, which you can get at your fingertips. Everything is so obvious. The originally beautiful scenes are changed by the writer's enlargement of some specific details which provide a certain effect on the readers. All of the above is a reminder of how personal feelings can alter one's attitude towards what they see or what they experience. Sometimes, when you're sad, everything seems so depressing. It's like the whole world is against you. The sunset could be a fantastic scene when you are full of joy, but an additional source of sadness when you are not in the mood. Harker is separated from her lovely fiancé to meet a foreign earl in the exotic and unknown oriental world.