Chances are if you didn’t read “Dracula,” you saw a movie version. The original 19th century novel unearths a deep plot filled with unsavory creatures…the same thing Dracula enjoyed when he was real hungry.
The story begins as lawyer Jonathon Harker heads for Count Dracula’s Transylvania castle on a legal matter. Dracula invites Jon to stay overnight, which may be hunger talking. Jon’s soon awakened by scratching. He opens his bedroom door to find Drac hanging upside down on the wall.
Bolting from his room, Jon escapes by running through another door, which leads him into a casket-filled courtyard. Quickly, he swallows a cold capsule to “stop the persistent coffin.”
From this point forward, the plot becomes thicker than concrete pudding. At Dracula’s castle, we learn that he has several brides (you’ll see them in later movies) who conspire with him to bleed good folks dry.
The only way to destroy these rascals is to pierce their hearts with stakes while they sleep. So, when the sun rises, that’s what our heroes do. Soon the world is vampirefree…until the next sequel.
In reading this grand classic, we discover that (1) blood is thicker than water, and more nutritious, too, (2) vampires make lousy house pets, and (3) vampires rarely order a stake dinner.
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