Our culture is fascinated by zombies; always has been. Vampire novels, films and television shows abound in the lists of popular entertainments. Most modern takes, however, are pale imitations of the real goods served up at the turn of the 20th Century by the Irish writer Bram Stoker in his classic novel, Dracula. As inescapable as the fact of mortality is the persistence with which the creative mind travels dark roads to attempt to overcome the terminal nature of our lives. Stoker didn’t invent the notion of vampires, the undead who sustain themselves on the blood of the living, nor their nighttime wanderings, nor the undercurrent of unrestrained id that renders them a forbidden fruit. But his masterpiece, Dracula, codifies the story and distills its essential elements. Dracula is timeless; it remains a novel for today because Stoker tells the story with such great skill that we see, as if for the first time, what we thought we knew of the Count, his castle, and his brood, all of which have too often been obscured by countless adaptations of lesser quality. (Summary by Michael Hogan)

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