London, September 1888. Jack the Ripper roams the streets. A scream rings out from beneath the stage of the Lyceum Theatre-
A young -actress- has been attacked, suffering peculiar bite wounds to her neck; an event that announces a series of strange, vampiric happenings, and thrusts an unwitting Bram Stoker - acting manager of the Lyceum and aspiring author - into the limelight, and the action.
Increasingly perplexed by the unsettling behaviour of his ''Guv-nor-, the brilliant but mercurial actor, Henry Irving, and Irving-s acclaimed leading lady, Ellen Terry, Stoker soon starts suspecting the worst. And then, another attack reveals a vicious Prussian baron, returned to London as a vampire seeking revenge-
Alive with Gothic intrigue, reversal and surprise, Mr Stoker will keep the reader enthralled and confounded until its final, shocking scene - indeed, until its very last word.
''This is a fully realised Gothic
