DRACULA!!

The classic tale of Count Dracula is so tattooed on our culture (see: Sesame Street) that we sometimes forget to, you know, actually read the thing. We even forget that the tale draws on folklore about a wealthy count whose greed symbolically sucked the life force out of the peasant class. Horror story and social commentary all in one? Delicious.


http://www.shmoop.com/dracula/