Dracula

The main work of Bram Stoker, a vampire aristocrat who became the standard for subsequent writings, the cause of mass fascination with the "vampire" myth, and received mass embodiment – from literature to anime and video games. "…I read "The Vampire – Count Dracula". I read for two nights and was desperately afraid. Then I also understood the depth of this, regardless of its literary merits, etc. <…> This is a remarkable and inexhaustible thing, I thank you for finally making me read it". A. A. Blok from a letter to E. P. Ivanov dated September 3, 1908.