An exercise in masculine anxiety and nationalist paranoia, Stoker's novel is filled with scenes that are staggeringly lurid and perverse... The one in Highgate cemetery, where Arthur and Van Helsing drive a stake through the writhing body of the vampirised Lucy Westenra, is my favourite -- Sarah Waters It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror -- Bram Stoker's Mother Dracula is the daddy of all vampires * Daily Express * Bram Stoker's Dracula remains central to contemporary vampire myths * The Times * The ultimate monster * Mirror *