![]() At once immersively long and naggingly open-ended, it is riddled with holes that readers have delighted in filling in. Yet these very weaknesses lend the story the hard-to-shake-off feeling of rumor, whispers of doom traveling through the grapevine. The secret to its sticking power may lie in its form told through letters, journals, transcripts, newspaper articles and the occasional ship log, the storytelling is often fragmentary, long-winded and redundant. To embark on the lengthy 1897 novel is to be struck with its enduring weirdness, its uneven and excessive storytelling, its sentimental prudishness accompanied by an almost hysterical eroticism. ![]() Thanks to Tod Browning's 1931 film and a host of adaptations since, most know Dracula's name without having read the book, but those who do read it often become devotees. ![]() For sheer notoriety, no Victorian novel beats Bram Stoker's "Dracula." Every modern-day iteration of a vampire owes a debt to Stoker's creation, giving it something of the proprietary eponymity of Kleenex or Xerox. ![]()
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