Mention of any thriller immediately brings a comparison to Dracula, the model toward which writers of the macabre strive. As a novel it has provided chills and nightmares for countless readers; on stage and as a cinema it has aroused terror in the harts of vast audiences. The monstrous figure of Dracula, half human, half bat, the “human vampire,” is as original and forbidding a creature as the literature of horror has ever created. His sinister deeds grip you with an icy fear and hold you spellbound. Dracula is a tale of terror out of a nightmare world to keep you frightened and fascinated from beginning to end.