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A reliable, affordable edition with a scholarly introduction and notes.

Oxford University Press; cover image via Amazon. Image source

ISBN 9780199564095

The most thoroughly researched life of Bram, especially on his Dublin years and Trinity College.

A readable biography that draws on family papers and is strong on Irving, the Lyceum and the making of Dracula.

Separates documented fact from popular myth about the novel, its sources and the Vlad connection.

Reproduces and transcribes Bram’s own working notes, the best way to see how he planned the novel.

2013 paperback ISBN 978-0-7864-7730-2; eBook ISBN 978-1-4766-1418-2

Essays on the novel, its contexts and its continuing cultural life.

Hardback ISBN 9781107153172; paperback 9781316607084

A detailed account of Bram and the Lyceum circle; some of its inferences about his private life have been debated by later scholars.

By Bram’s great-nephew, it preserves family memories and anecdote; its claims, including about Bram’s death, should be checked against later research.

A popular account that mixes biography with family tradition and legend.

A study of Bram’s writing and its contexts, more literary criticism than life story.

Hardback ISBN 978-1-4039-4647-8; DOI 10.1057/9780230626416

The first full biography, written with family help and valuable for early family tradition.

Ludlam’s own account of researching Bram’s life, including the obstacles he met and later films and plays.

Dracula Press; photograph from Southampton Books via AbeBooks. Image source

ISBN 1888893028

The most thoroughly researched life of Bram, especially on his Dublin years and Trinity College.

A short critical study of Bram’s life and fiction.

Original Twayne binding, shown open with its titled spine.

Twayne; binding photograph via AbeBooks. Image source

ISBN 9780805768282

A readable biography that draws on family papers and is strong on Irving, the Lyceum and the making of Dracula.

Presents family research and perspective on Bram’s life by a member of the Stoker family.

Telos Publishing; cover image via Amazon. Image source

ISBN 9781845832025

The collection that includes the story long associated with a chapter cut from Dracula.

A work of non-fiction on celebrated impostors and hoaxes.

Bram’s own account of the Lyceum years and his working life beside Irving. The free Project Gutenberg text is the revised one-volume edition of 1907.

Vol. 1 paperback ISBN 9781108057431 (Cambridge Library Collection)

A novel of an Egyptian queen’s mummy and its unsettling effects.

A late Gothic novel drawing on English legend.

Bram’s Irish novel, set in the west of Ireland.

Bram’s early collection of dark fairy tales.

Gathers lesser-known stories and essays.

A reference list of Bram’s works and editions.

Reproduces and transcribes Bram’s own working notes, the best way to see how he planned the novel.

2013 paperback ISBN 978-0-7864-7730-2; eBook ISBN 978-1-4766-1418-2

Collects Bram’s handwritten and typed notes and early drafts, including ‘Dracula’s Guest’, as an update to the 2008 facsimile.

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Paperback ISBN 9780228814290; hardback 9780228814306

Bram’s own journal from his Dublin years.

Bram’s writing on theatre, with reviews and reminiscences.

Cover shown: volume 1, Theatrical Reviews, from the set; Routledge reissue of the 2012 edition.

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ISBN 9781848931428

A Victorian study of werewolf and vampire lore that Bram used.

A Victorian travel account of Transylvania that Bram used; it appears among the books in his notebooks.

A Victorian travel account of the Carpathian region that Bram used.

University of Michigan copy, digitised by Google Books; 1878 title page. Image source

A study of Transylvanian customs and superstitions that Bram drew on; it appears among the books in his notes.

A Dublin-born writer’s vampire novella, an important earlier vampire story.

A Victorian travel account of Hungary and its borderlands that Bram used.

Központi Antikvárium; title page of volume I, Sampson Low, 1881. Image source

One of the first English vampire stories.

The book in which Bram found the name ‘Dracula’.

1820 title-page scan, digitised by Google; existing Estate collection reference image. Image source

The text with background documents and critical essays.

W. W. Norton; second-edition cover image via Amazon. Image source

ISBN 9780393679205

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The text with contextual documents on the period.

Broadview Press; cover image via Amazon. Image source

ISBN 9781551111360

A widely used classroom edition.

Penguin Classics; cover image via Amazon. Image source

ISBN 9780141439846

The most heavily annotated edition, explaining references and background alongside the text.

W. W. Norton; cover image via Amazon. Image source

ISBN 9780393064506

A reliable, affordable edition with a scholarly introduction and notes.

Oxford University Press; cover image via Amazon. Image source

ISBN 9780199564095

Read and search the complete novel on this website, chapter by chapter. Uses the Project Gutenberg transcription; check quotations against your chosen edition.

Online reading edition

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A recent annotated edition of the novel, with annotations by Dacre and Robert Eighteen-Bisang.

Hardback ISBN 9781953905376

An illustrated popular edition with extensive notes.

Plume; cover image via Amazon. Image source

ISBN 9780452269439

A bibliographic study of the early printings. The Italian edition, Dracula di Bram Stoker: Il mistero delle prime edizioni, was published by Biblohaus in 2014.

Italian edition: Dracula di Bram Stoker: Il mistero delle prime edizioni (Lulu, 2014)

Collects early reviews and responses.

Apocryphile Press; cover image via Amazon. Image source

ISBN 9781937002213

A reference on film, television and other visual adaptations.

Examines how Bram imagined Transylvania.

Pro Universitaria; publisher cover reproduced by The Vampirologist. Image source

An English translation of the Icelandic version, with commentary.

A biography of the historical Vlad, whose link to the novel is disputed.

Hawthorn Books; jacket photograph via AbeBooks. Image source

ISBN 9780801522208

Essays and sources on the vampire tradition before and around Bram.

Reads Bram’s other fiction in its cultural setting.

An older but widely used study of the novel and its sources.

ISBN 0850303834 (1985 edition)

An influential early study of Vlad and the Transylvanian background; later scholars have questioned how far Vlad shaped Bram’s Count.

An encyclopedia of the wider vampire tradition.

A collection of documents on the novel’s sources, composition and reception.

ISBN 0787668419

Separates documented fact from popular myth about the novel, its sources and the Vlad connection.

Follows the novel through stage and screen.

A cultural history of the vampire, with Dracula in context.

ISBN 0226032019

Reads Bram’s fiction in the politics of popular writing.

ISBN 9780822317982 (hardback); 9780822318033 (paperback)

Essays on Bram and the Gothic from several critical angles.

Hardback ISBN 9780333720462

Essays on the novel, its contexts and its continuing cultural life.

Hardback ISBN 9781107153172; paperback 9781316607084

A book-length study placing the novel between older and newer fiction.

ISBN 0805778446 (Twayne's Masterwork Studies no. 168)

Reads the novel through Irishness and blood.

Dublin background and the Wilde connection with Bram’s circle.

Examines Wilde’s posthumous reputation and the effects of scandal on his family, drawing on family archives and scholarship.

UK hardback ISBN 9781787705920.

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An illustrated life of Oscar Wilde assembled by his grandson from family photographs and contemporary material.

UK hardback ISBN 9781857027822.

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A group biography of the Lyceum company.

A practical guide to Dublin’s Gothic places.

Places the novel in the theatre culture Bram worked in.

A sequel following the survivors after the novel.

A pastiche that pairs Holmes with the Count.

A reimagining told through Dracula’s bride Constanta.

2022 edition

A crossover bringing together women from Victorian Gothic fiction.

The first novel in the Diaries of the Family Dracul trilogy, exploring the Count’s family history.

Brings Lucy Westenra and Jane Eyre’s Bertha Mason together in 1960s California.

A quest novel built around the Vlad legend.

An alternate Victorian England under Dracula, with many literary cameos.

The Count tells his own version of events.

A prequel mixing Bram’s early life with invention.

A sequel co-written by a member of the Stoker family.

Dutton; cover image via Amazon. Image source

ISBN 9780525951292

An earlier sequel to the novel.

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ISBN 9780140268805

Continues Lucy Westenra’s story beyond the novel.