Who wrote the novel "Dracula"?

Bram Stoker wrote the novel "Dracula." Stoker was an Irish author who published the Gothic horror novel in 1897, while also working for many years as the business manager of actor Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre in London.

Stoker developed the book over several years, researching vampire folklore, Eastern European history, travel accounts, and earlier Gothic fiction. He created the story as an epistolary novel, meaning it is assembled from diaries, letters, newspaper reports, telegrams, and other documents rather than told by a single conventional narrator. That structure lets readers experience the mystery through the characters' partial and often frightened viewpoints.

A common mix-up is confusing Stoker with figures associated with the novel's inspirations or adaptations. The historical ruler Vlad the Impaler is often linked to Count Dracula, but he did not write the book and is not a simple one-to-one model for Stoker's fictional vampire. Likewise, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray. Stoker's novel has remained in print since its publication.