Bram Stoker invented the modern vampire by assembling his novel from diary entries, letters, and newspaper clippings—an experimental structure that makes the horror feel documentary-real. Count Dracula isn't just a monster but a force of ancient predation invading Victorian London, turning modern technology and scientific rationalism against itself. The novel that launched a thousand imitators remains the most unsettling, treating vampirism as both literal threat and metaphor for how the past feeds on the present. This Gothic horror classic defined the vampire genre and remains the definitive vampire novel.
 
 
 
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