Annotated Dracula

[andydecker]

Here are two annotated editions I stumbled across. I have collected a few Dracula editions, both in the original and in translations. The one book which never loses its facination for me.


Norton, 1997, edited by Nina Auerbach and David J. Skal

This one has 160 pages of essays and articles in small print. Reviews and Reaction is a nice idea, original reviews from the first publishing. There is an in-depth dissection of Dracula on the stage, written by David J.Skal, and more or less intellectual essays like The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization by Stephen D. Arata.

Penguin, Plume, 1993, edited by Leonard Wolf

This has an informative introduction for rookies up to Anne Rice. Basically it is at times heavily footnoted. The appendices are the text of the short story Dracula's Guest, a filmography up to 1985 (which today seems lovely old-fashioned, but was quite hard work back then) and a bibliography.

[dem bones]

Bram Stoker, Hans Corneel de Roos & Co. The Ultimate Dracula

It's not annotated, but this version is a real labour of love on the part of the editor. Stoker's novel, several essays, the whole lavishly illustrated with maps, vintage postcards, a soft porn model shoot & Co.