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Dracula might well be called the benchmark vampire story. In 2002, Riverdale Electonic Books published its popularly priced Microsoft Reader version of this 1897 novel, with an introduction and notes by Jacob Thomson. The eerie cover illustration is by Tasmanian artist Chris Lee.

Many popular vampiric traditions can trace their emergence into popular culture to Bram Stoker's most famous work. Stoker was the first to effectively equate the vampire bat with the human vampire, and must take responsibility for popularizing the vampire's shape-shifting nature. The vampire as an erotic symbol predates Dracula, but this novel, along with its various stage and cinematic offshoots, did a great deal to bring that element to prominence.

This electronic edition of Dracula was produced with great attention to detail, and considerable care was taken to insure that the page design displayed in the Microsoft Reader software would be as close to a printed book as possible. This version is available at a number of online sites, including Amazon.com, and Powells.com.

Riverdale also plans to release a printed version of Dracula in 2005, which will include Thomson's Introduction and notes. Page count and price has not been determined as yet.

Read Jacob Thomson's Introduction to Dracula.