''The very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years'' Arthur Conan DoyleA masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also probes identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. It begins when Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, and makes horrifying discoveries in his client''s castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England - an unmanned ship is wrecked; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman''s neck; a lunatic asylum inmate raves about the imminent arrival of his ''Master'' - and a determined group of adversaries prepare to battle the Count. Edited with an Introduction and notes by MAURICE HINDLEWith a Preface by CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING