We are here to celebrate Dracula on the book’s 125th Birthday.
That is Dracula, the book written by Bram Stoker, not the films, the comics, the spin-offs, the merchandise and consumables or the shoelaces and lollipops. This is the book; the one you hold in your hands and maybe read for the first time. If so, throw your pre-conceptions to one side as this is going to be nothing like the story that you expected. This Dracula doesn’t even look the same. You have so much to look forward to. Two books, since first publication, have never been out of print. One is the Bible and the other is Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Perhaps its popularity has always been in its ability to make one feel like order has been restored through a strong empathy with the characters. We feel that we have become part of their existence through reading their diaries, letters and hearing their phonograph recordings. There is a real element of hope in their words and in their practices, we even see technology used to aid their war. Therein is progress alongside the knowledge of the past, looking to the future to dispel the shadows and bring us light where once we only saw fear in darkness. We can see the war of civilisation versus our baser instincts, not only in the fight against the sexual charge in the vampiric bloodlust but also in the ability that our heroes have to prevail against the animalistic forms that Dracula brings. One thing for definite is that Dracula’s imperial invasion was successful. He has permeated human culture on a global level, conquered all nations spreading his diabolism. He is greater than any other bogeyman in this respect defying all culture, not just Christian. It’s just a shame that the literary Dracula has been lost somewhere in the mix, but maybe this retreat is necessary as he always belonged in the dark recesses, tempting us from our shadows.
The book is fully illustrated by John Chadwick who made 29 Illustrations that wonderfully accompany each chapter of the novel.
ASIN : B0BG94G9VQ
Publisher : Eighth Tower (September 22, 2022)
Publication date : September 22, 2022
Language : English
File size : 36227 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 548 pages
