Dracula

I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the super-sensitive skin
of my throat, and the bard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and
pausing there. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited …
waited with beating heart.’

Welcome to the world of Count Dracula, a man who lives in a crumbling, remote
castle in the Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania. Enter in his world a young
English solicitor, Jonathan Harker, who visits him to provide legal support for an
overseas transaction. But things aren’t how they seem to be … the Count isn’t who
he seems to be.

Things begin to start changing when Harker realises that he cannot get out of the
castle and manages to barely escape with his life. What is bappening?
Meanwhile in England, a Russian ship runs aground with the entire crew dead. But
only one dead body is found. Wbere are the others?
A beautiful young lady, Lucy Westenra, who also happens to be Harker’s fiancee’s
friend, begins wasting away in a very suspicious manner and dies. Soon after, little
kids in England report being stalked in the night by a ‘bloofer lady’, Is it Laey?
Is the Count, who by now has come to England, behind all this?
Wilhelmina ‘Mina’ Murray, who by now has married Harket, begins forming a
telepathic connection with the Count. Is it because he has not only been feeding
from her but adso feeding her his blood?

In equal measures mesmerizing as it is diabolical, Dracula, told in
epistolary format, bas become an iconic book. Stoker weaves the themes of
sexual conventions, Victorian culture, colonialism, and post-colonialism
in this Gothic-borror novel.