This lends a degree of mysteriousness that tempers our optimism about the possible success of the crew of light. We never get the perspective of Dracula himself, and we are often in the dark about his motives and actions. We are not hearing all this fantastic tale from the unreliable narration of just one character, but a piecing together of a coherent narrative from several characters. The narrative technique of making use of diaries, journals, news reports, and other methods of information storage and sharing lends a realistic and believable air to the story. Scholars have theorized that this staying power owes in large measure to Stoker’s ability to capture a range of Victorian fears that are still relatable to us to this day in the work.īram Stoker is a master of the horror genre and excels at creating suspense and maintaining thrill. What it has over every other vampire book before and after it was supreme staying power and influence. Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ was not the first novel on Vampires, nor the most particularly well-written one.
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