Dracula

The plot of Dracula is actually a decent one: it develops a certain narrative momentum as the Count leaves Transylvania to pursue new victims in Britain. The story also has some allegorical depth as it compares the traditional society of Transylvania with the scientifically-advanced world of modern England. But Bram Stoker is a terrible writer — obvious and cliched — and the book’s epistolary documents (diary entries, letters, etc.) are not well-constructed.