THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDED BOOK IS ONE
YOU CAN’T PUT DOWN, PROVIDED YOU REALLY, REALLY READ IT STRAIGHT THROUGH…
IF YOU ALLOW THE STORY TO CARRY YOU ALONG…
IF YOU SUSPEND ALL JUDGEMENT TILL THE LAST PAGE,
YOU’LL HAVE QUITE A RIDE.
You’ll never find this bestseller on the New York Times bestseller list, but it’s a book that will stay with you the rest of your life…a book that hasn’t been out of print for more than a century.
In keeping with the month of Halloween, this is one to scare you:
Once you’ve read the scariest books ever written, Halloween is never over, and you are never the same.
NOW READ THIS:
Dracula by Bram Stoker
(“As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder…”)
Bram Stoker published this wonderfully wicked and terrifying novel at about the same time another horror story was being published: The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells. Yes, both books are horror stories with villains never before seen in 19th-Century literature.
DRACULA is particularly suspenseful because it takes place in real places, places you can find on the map to this day. The extended train ride that young Jonathan Harker takes to meet Count Dracula is horrible enough—Stoker makes sure you have indigestion and a sense of foreboding long before anything really creepy happens. You’ll see what I mean.
READ AND CRINGE!
© 2010 A.D. by Jim Reed