Dracula (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Bram Stoker
- First Published: 1897
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Horror
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Gothic fiction, Horror literature, Vampire fiction
- Subjects: Voyages, Folkloric or magical people, Prisoners, Love or romance, Supernatural, Escapes, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, England or English people, Lawyers, Legends, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Wolves, Nobility, Bats, Demoniac possession, Vampires
- Locales: Purfleet, England, Transylvania, Romania, Whitby, England
Places Discussed
*Castle Dracula. Ancestral home of Count Dracula in Transylvania that is visited by the English estate agent Jonathan Harker at the beginning of the novel. The gate of admittance to the unearthly horrors that are to come, Castle Dracula is the catalyst for the forces of evil in the novel and the place where the young solicitor sent to transact business with the count encounters things worse than any death. An avatar for the loneliness of terror, the castle, “from whose tall black windows came no ray of light,” also becomes the setting for one of the most...
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- - Read the Dracula text online.
- - For teachers, the Dracula Lesson Plan.
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