Dracula

A young London lawyer travels to the mysterious Transylvania at the request of his patron to the castle of the enigmatic Count Dracula, completely unaware of what awaits him there...

An iconic vampire novel, a super bestseller of all time. In painstaking research for it, Stoker spent eight years studying European and especially Irish folklore, myths, legends, and any references to vampires and bloodsuckers.
«Dracula» was written back in 1897 and has since undergone numerous reprints. It has been adapted for film multiple times, including by such a master of cinema as Francis Ford Coppola.