'DRACULA' the Original
In 1897, an Irish writer named Bram Stoker introduced to the world a horrific and hypnotic count named Dracula, whose nails were long and "cut to a sharp point," and who had "peculiarly sharp white teeth." His book, Dracula was not the first work of English literature to detail the life and times of vampires: At least three others appeared prior to his. But Stoker's novel of Jonathan and Mina Harker, their stalwart friends and the wise Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, has become the definitive...