Dracula by Bram Stoker is a classic Gothic horror novel told through letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings. It begins with English solicitor Jonathan Harker traveling to Transylvania to finalize a real-estate deal with Count Dracula, only to find himself a prisoner in the vampire’s eerie castle. After a harrowing escape, Dracula journeys to England aboard the ship Demeter, bringing death and vampiric terror to the coastal town of Whitby . In London, Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray and her friend Lucy Westenra become targets. Despite offers of marriage from three suitors, Lucy succumbs to Dracula’s bite and transforms into a vampire herself. She is mercifully destroyed by Dr. John Seward, Arthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, and the Dutch vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing. The group soon uncovers Dracula’s plan to spread his undead influence and band together—led by Van Helsing—to pursue the Count. They track him back to Transylvania, facing supernatural horrors along the way. Rich with themes of superstition, 𝑠e𝑥uality, gender and the fear of foreign invasion, Dracula has shaped popular vampire lore and remains one of the most influential novels in Gothic fiction