Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

Genre: Classic LiteraturePages: 488

Published: 1897

Told In: First Person

 “Movie” Rating: PG

(Leaning toward the PG-13 side)

Compare to:

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

In a nutshell:

The story, told through journals and letters, of how a group of people learned of the existence of vampires, and hunt down the one who started it all---Dracula.

What you may enjoy:

Classic story that makes all other vampire stories look silly in comparison. There is more dialogue and redeemable characters than “Frankenstein” and more details and story than Jekyll and Hyde. Since the story is told through multiple people, readers get many great perspectives.

What you may NOT enjoy:

Sometimes the language of the book is hard to follow for people unaccustomed to older English. Van Helsing talks far too much and all the men are overly dramatic. Some people have trouble their suspension of disbelief when it comes to the blood transfusions.

Warnings:

Violence and Disturbing Images:

Wolves eat woman; vampire kills baby; man kills and eats birds raw; old man found dead; dead body found tied onto a ship; woman dies of heart attack; girl dies from blood loss; vampire bites child’s neck; vampire staked through the heart (slightly graphic); man lying in a pool of blood; vampire drinks from woman’s neck; vampire breaks man’s back, man dies; woman forced to drink vampire’s blood; man’s throat ripped out; vampire’s head cut off and heart stabbed through; man dies from knife wound.

Sex and Nudity:

Women kisses man; man kisses woman

Language and Profanity:

God (30 times); damn (2 times); hell

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