![]() The book remains perennially fascinating to fans of Gothic fiction – indeed, to fans of literature in general. Paul Allen, who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, paid an undisclosed amount for Stoker’s manuscript of the book. ![]() The co-founder of Microsoft owns the original manuscript of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Now, Dracula is the most-filmed fictional character ever, beating even Sherlock Holmes into second place.ĥ. ![]() It was the numerous twentieth-century film adaptations of Stoker’s novel – beginning with Nosferatu, which brought a lawsuit against the film’s director from Stoker’s widow – that helped to make it a popular Gothic novel and a classic. Like Dracula, Marsh’s novel is a Gothic horror story set largely in London, which engages with notions of the ‘other’ which is figured as a colonial or racial ‘alien’ found in Victorian London. Dracula wasn’t exactly a bestseller when it was first published. Although Dracula sold reasonably well upon its publication in 1897, the novel didn’t quite fly off the shelves. In fact, it was outsold by another horror novel published in the same year, 1897: Richard Marsh’s The Beetle. ![]()
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