Dracula

The count never appears in mirrors. The scariest people in my life also didn't.

Mina typed the whole nightmare into a typewriter. Fiction's first great information manager.

Renfield eats sparrows to eat spiders to eat, hierarchy of appetite, painted precisely.

The blood of the covenant, van Helsing's crew became family by transfusion. Found family, literally.

He can't enter uninvited. Consent as horror mechanics, Stoker got there first.

Jonathan's shaving mirror moment, a handshake and a cut. Dread in one small detail.

The boxes of earth, even a monster ships its home overseas.

Lucy walked at night and got paler by day. Everyone around her had explanations. Nobody had windows.

Teamwork, ledgers and train timetables defeated a vampire. The ending is an office.

I read it as epistolary dread, then as an immigrant story, then both at once.