During a business visit to Count Dracula&#39;s castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, observes the Count&#39;s transformation from human to bat form, and discovers puncture wounds on his own neck that seem to have been made by teeth.<br />Harker returns home upon his escape from Dracula&#39;s grim fortress, but a friend&#39;s strange malady &mdash; involving sleepwalking, inexplicable blood loss, and mysterious throat wounds &mdash; initiates a frantic vampire hunt. The popularity of Bram Stoker&#39;s 1897 horror romance is as deathless as any vampire. Its supernatural appeal has spawned a host of film and stage adaptations, and more than a century after its initial publication, it continues to hold readers spellbound.