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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

*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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