[Introduction -- excerpts] First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's novel Dracula has become embedded in modern culture, primarily through its extensive adaptations in Hollywood films. The story tells a gothic tale of Count Dracula, a Transylvanian vampire who travels to England in the late-nineteenth century to terrorize London society and suck the blood of his unfortunate and unsuspecting victims. Written during a time of globalization, Dracula...

Abstract As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window- Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbbed it to and fro till blook ran down and soaked the bed clothes; still it wailed, "Let me in!" and maintained its tenacious gripe almost maddening me with fear. "How can I?" I said at length. "Let me go if you...