Noted literary detective Leslie S. Klinger may live on the sunny shores of Malibu, but his work resides in far darker depths. The man behind the definitive annotated Sherlock Holmes collection, which traces the historical routes of Doyle's stories, Klinger has recently turned his attention to dreaded Vampire Prince Dracula. His astonishingly thorough annotations to Stoker's 1897 masterpiece accept the author's contention that the story is rooted in historical fact. The resulting text is a political, historical, stylistic, and literary examination that includes everything from private viewings of original texts to first-hand accounts of Transylvanian cemeteries.