Bram Stoker (b. 1847) was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. While a civil servant he wrote theatre reviews and short stories. He became the manager of Sir Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre in London, and met many of the great actors and writers of his day. As well as Dracula, his books include The Lady of the Shroud and The Lair of the White Worm. Stoker died in 1912.

Dr Curt Herr is Professor of Victorian, Queer, and Gothic Literature at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania. He has authored critical editions of Penny Dreadfuls including Varney the Vampire and The Black Monk. He is the co-editor of The Journal of Dracula Studies.

Tom Butler-Bowdon is series editor of the Capstone Classics series and has written introductions to Plato's Republic, Epictetus's Discourses, Machiavelli's The Prince, and Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he is also the author of 50 Philosophy Classics, 50 Politics Classics, and 50 Psychology Classics.