The New Annotated Dracula Horror Book Review

Cause for international celebration—the most important and complete edition of Dracula in decades. 

In his first work since his best-selling The             New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S.  Klinger returns with this spectacular, lavishly           illustrated homage to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. With a daring conceit, Klinger             accepts Stoker’s contention that the Dracula               tale is based on historical fact. Traveling       through two hundred years of popular culture and           myth as well as graveyards and the wilds of Transylvania, Klinger’s notes illuminate every             aspect of this haunting narrative (including a detailed examination of the original typescript           of Dracula, with its shockingly different           ending,  previously unavailable to scholars).      Klinger investigates the many subtexts of the             original narrative—from masochistic,    necrophilic, homoerotic, “dentophilic,” and even           heterosexual implications of the story to its               political,  economic, feminist, psychological,    and historical threads. Employing the superb               literary detective skills for which he has               become famous, Klinger mines this 1897 classic for nuggets that will surprise even the most           die-hard Dracula fans and introduce the vampire-prince to a new generation of readers.

35 color; 400 black & white.