4. DRACULA Bram Stoker 8. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED Evelyn Waugh

This wildly entertaining gothic horror introduced the bloodthirsty count, and established the ever-popular genre of literature. We first encounter Dracula in his Transylvanian castle, where he welcomes lawyer Jonathan Harker, before he travels to the UK. Told in part in the unfortunate Jonathan’s diaries, it exerts an ageless fascination – just like the count.

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Famous for its evocation of the decadent life of pre-war Oxford undergraduates, this poignant story is a love letter to the faded glory of the English aristocracy. Charles befriends the teddy bear-toting Sebastian and is drawn into the orbit of his glamorous but dysfunctional Catholic family.

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