D is for Dracula

 

 

While earlier tales of undead, blood-drinking creatures existed in lore and literature, Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula became the iconic villain that continues to be revisited and reinvented in fiction and film today.

Dracula
Bram Stoker, 1847-1912
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897
First edition, second state
Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy

The Merril Collection includes this rare first edition of the iconic vampire novel.

It follows the story of English solicitor Jonathan Harker who visits castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania.

When Harker realizes that Dracula intends to move to London and to spread his disease of the undead, he and his friends band together with vampire-hunter Van Helsing to defeat the evil vampire.