Now, of course I've got a copy of Dracula. A couple actually. Some nondescript mass market copy. The Norton Critical edition edited by David Skal and Nina Auerbach. Leonard Wolf's The Essential Dracula from Byron Preiss's iBooks, which was a repackaging of The Annotated Dracula.
So, I guess there's always room for another one, right?
And what an edition this is!
As it would be with something like this, it's not the Bram Stoker novel that's the draw, it's the annotations and pictures. There are pictures from most of the film portrayals up until Frank Langella- who gets the cover- and maps and hundreds of annotations from the scholars who were responsible for the book In Search of Dracula.
Even though it's a seventies edition of a Victorian novel, it's rather immune to being dated, in fact, the only thing that really dates it at all is the Langella photo and dedication.
Mostly because MY seventies Dracula was Michael Nouri.
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