Dracula

A young solicitor named Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to negotiate with a client. Upon his arrival, he is attacked by three phantom women, observes the client's transformation from human to bat form, and discovers puncture wounds on his own neck that seem to have been made by teeth. Harker returns home after escaping the grim fortress of Dracula's castle, but a friend's strange malady—involving sleepwalking, inexplicable blood loss, and mysterious throat wounds—starts him on a frantic vampire hunt. The popularity of Bram Stoker's 1897 horror romance is as deathless as any vampire. Its supernatural appeal has spawned a host of film and stage adaptations, and more than a century after its initial publication, it continues to hold readers spellbound.