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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Some books become famous long before we ever open them, and Dracula is often one of them. Yet beyond the story of a mysterious count lies a world of growing unease, unfamiliar places, and tension that builds almost unnoticed. Perhaps that is why it still feels so vivid today — some fears never fade as much as we imagine.
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- Bram Stoker
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- English
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About the author
Bram Stoker was an Irish writer and theatre manager who gave Gothic horror one of its most enduring figures: Count Dracula. In Dracula, his most famous novel, he shaped the story through journals, letters, newspaper clippings, and reports, making the supernatural feel chillingly close to documented fact. He also wrote other novels, short stories, and darkly adventurous works, though none escaped the enormous shadow of his Transylvanian vampire. Curiously, Stoker did not spend most of his life as a reclusive architect of nightmares, but as a highly practical man in the busy world of London theatre. Managing the career of the great actor Henry Irving may have taught him one unforgettable lesson: few things are more powerful than a perfectly timed entrance.
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Shadows, Secrets and the Self
Stories of secrets, hidden identities, guilt, obsession, transformation, and the darker sides of human nature. This collection opens books in which true tension lies not only in external danger, but in what remains concealed beneath the surface of the self.