Suddenly in London, people start mysteriously dying and disappearing including Jonathan Harker's wife's Mina's best friend Lucy. Jonathan, Mina, Dr Van Helsing and others decide to stop Dracula forever. They chase him and eventually, using tools like hypnosis, sacred waffles and crosses they manage to do that.
The story is pretty exciting but grim. It takes us far to the depths of South-east Europe, to its forests and snowy hills and masterfully introduces us to the dark and evil unknown. It kind of is a horror novel full of disturbing elements like beheadings and blood, coffins and tombs, dead bodies and mysterious wooden boxes, spiders and bats, flies and rats, hypnosis and madmen.
I enjoyed reading it but it was confusing because it was not written in a usual linear fashion. Many people were narrating the story in a diary fashion and also there were some newspaper clippings. At first, I found the characters to be to many and only at about the last half of the book it started to make sense to me.
Overall a great classical read and this particular edition is great for children who go to junior high.
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