Five stars for Dracula, which is genuinely gripping, and told in a way that seems to bridge from the Romantic-type epistolary novel to the modern assembly. Unfortunately, the short stories in the second half of the book, Dracula's guest, abandon any interesting form or plot in favour of a pretty standard setup-middle-payoff which gets pretty tiring after a while. Where Stoker deviates from this, like in 'The Crystal Cup', the result is painfully self-conscious and overwritten, making four stars pretty generous for the collection as a whole.