Dracula
I have finally finished Dracula ! I had a horrible head cold and didn’t feel like reading for a while. Dracula was written in 1897 by Bram Stoker. Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 8 th 1847 and was the third of seven children. He attended Trinity College and spent some time as a theatre critic. He eventually became the business manager of Irving’s Lyceum Theatre in London. He traveled a lot and met a lot of people while working for the theater and one of those people was Armin Vambery, a Hungarian author. Vambery and Stoker discussed European folklore, including vampires, and it was from these tales that Stoker gained the inspiration for Dracula. I may be a little biased with this review. Dracula has always been one of my favorite novels and the horror genre is also my favorite genre. Having read a lot of horror novels, I can tell you that the one thing this novel does very well is build suspense. The novel begins