Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula

"DRACULA in Wallachian language means DEVIL."

It’s as though Bram Stoker (1847-1912) wrote the story himself—of how his notes were discovered a year after his death in a Pennsylvania homestead barn. There, a family found three trunks: one contained clothes, the second held a bundle of papers, a third revealed desiccated rat corpses.

The bundle of papers proved to be Stoker’s working notes for Dracu…