Bram Stoker's most popular novel can be treated differently. One thing cannot be denied: no book about vampires written before or after Dracula can compare with it in its influence on literature, art and popular culture of the twentieth century. Suffice it to mention that since the first film adaptation in 1920, there has not been a single decade in which at least one film was not released dedicated to the immortal count, his brides and the main opponent, Professor Van Helsing. Add to this theatrical productions, animation, comics, board and video games, as well as a huge number of literary sequels and interpretations, and you realize that Stoker created not just a hero, but a new mythology. Surprisingly attractive, like any true myth.This edition includes not only the most complete Russian translation of the novel, but also its first chapter, excluded from the text by Stoker himself and later published by his widow as an independent work.< /p>