- Bram STOKER (Abraham Stoker), born in 1847 and decided in 1912, is a British writer of Irish origin. The author had fame thanks to his novel entitled Dracula, published in 1897. This novel was his major work. He worked on it for ten years. Stoker was a very perfectionist, and his work is as much a novel as an ethnological, historical, geographical or folkloric study. He described Transylvania by documenting himself in libraries. This book was not immediately successful and it was after the author's death that the name "Dracula" became posterious thanks to the playwright Hamilton Deane, who obtained from Stoker's widow the rights of the 'artwork. Dracula was also marked by the historical context with the end of the Victorian era. The killings of prostitutes by Jack the Ripper are also part of a climate of terror and taboos in Britain at the end of the 19th century. Literally, Bram Stoker may have been inspired by legendary vampires in the middle of the 18th century in a Europe devastated by plagues, yellow fever and cholera. And also, already existing novels of other authors, for example Karl Von Wachsmann (the Stranger of the Carpathians in Germany in 1844), with castle in Transylvania, dark forests, accursed character and frightened travelers. - DRACULA was published in 1897, is an epistolary novel, consisting of letters and diaries of Bram Stoker, a work that marks a turning point in the imagination and has influenced many artists, both in literature and cinema. The character of Dracula has become a myth. The story takes place at the end of the 19th century. Jonathan Harker, a young notary, travels to the castle of Dracula, located on the edge of the Carpathian Mountains, to finalize the sale of a beautiful house in London. The trip is scary, and once arrived at the castle, Harker quickly finds himself locked inside with the tale, a pale, skinny man who has no reflection in the mirrors. One night, Harker narrowly escapes the attack of three vampire women, and he discovers the secret of the tale: Dracula is a living dead man, a monster who survives by drinking the blood of humans. Harker, after an attempt to kill the account, is just alive, but Dracula fled to London. Meanwhile, in England, Jonathan's fiancee Mina Murray visits her friend Lucy, who has just accepted Arthur Holmwood's marriage proposal, while rejecting that of two other claimants, Dr. John Seward., director of a psychiatric asylum, and Quincey an American friend of Holmwood. Mina is worried because Lucy has resumed her sleepwalking habits, and she is also without news from Jonathan. One night, they witness the sinking of a strange ship in which there are no survivors, except for a strange dog that escapes. The ship was carrying 50 boxes of dirt from Dracula's castle. Lucy's condition worsened, her somnambulism attacks often brought her to the cemetery or leaning over the edge of her window, and two small wounds to her neck appeared to her. Mina finally receives news from Jonathan who is in Budapest, and goes to his bedside. After Lucy's death, children from the village are attacked at night by a strange woman. Mina and Jonathan return to England, freshly married. A group of six people go out looking for Dracula. Unfortunately, the count starts to pick on Mina. They finally manage to catch up with Dracula to the gates of his castle. After a battle with his local protectors, they finally manage to overthrow the crate and kill the Dracula, cutting off his head and thrusting a dagger into his heart.