Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, Gustave Courbet and Francisco Goya. A solicitor's clerk travels to the Carpathians on business and finds that his client does not keep ordinary hours. Stoker assembled the book out of letters, diary entries, ship's logs and newspaper cuttings, so that the horror arrives as evidence rather than narration. He worked on it for seven years while managing London's Lyceum Theatre, and did not live to see what it would become. Ninety-nine plates by painters including Böcklin and Friedrich carry the same moonlit ruins, mountain passes and ill omens that shadow the Count's journey into England.