Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Caspar David Friedrich, Johan Christian Dahl and Arnold Böcklin. 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. Fifty-eight night pieces by painters including Arkhip Kuindzhi and Jan Stanisławski follow the Count's journey from Carpathian passes to the Rhine and the sea.