Dracula is a fictitious prose narrative of book length.
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker . A novel is any relatively long piece of written narrative fiction , normally in prose , and typically published as a book . Walter Scott defined it as `` a fictitious narrative in prose or verse ; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents '' , whereas in the novel `` the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society '' .