Title Announcement: DRACULA by Bram Stoker.

We are delighted to announce that next year we will be publishing a fine press edition of DRACULA by Bram Stoker.

Since childhood my parents took me once a year, every year to Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay on the Yorkshire Coast, a tradition that has continued now with my family. Whitby Abbey, the Demeter shipwrecked upon the shoreline, and the black hound leaping from the boat to run up the 199 steps to the Abbey, Lucy’s nocturnal wanderings, the coastal graveyard are all inspired by this place which is something of a spiritual home to me. When we established Nepēnthé Press it was always our intention to produce the definitive fine-press edition of this Gothic Classic which I know so intimately, and next year, that is what we will set out to do.

There have been many editions of this most famous Vampire tale, but for me it has never been done justice. It is literally dripping in sublime, haunting imagery and infused with the power of a feverish nightmare and there was only one artist, I felt could capture this atmosphere of deep weirdness and ancient horror…. Santiago Caruso.

Caruso is arguably the greatest symbolist painter of the weird and occult working today. He has illustration credits include; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë for The Folio Society, The Master’s of the Weird Tale: Robert W Chambers for Centipede Press, The Works of H P Lovecraft, the cover art for the BFI edition of PAN’S LABYRINTH, directed by Guillermo Del Toro, as well as cover art for books by Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, John Langan, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín Kiernan, Ambrose Bierce and many others.

DRACULA will be letterpress-printed and bound in three states, Artists Edition, Deluxe and Lettered Editions. The book will be designed with typography by Elijah John along with letterpress printed chapter headers and vignettes, and fully illustrated plates in colour by Santiago Caruso.

DRACULA is one of our signature titles, and we have tweaked the forthcoming catalogue so the signature rights path now runs as such for 2025-2026

THE FISHERMAN by John Langan (2026)

METROPOLIS by Thea Von Harbou and Fritz Lang (2026)

DRACULA by Bram Stoker (2026)

DREAM STORY by Arthur Schnitzler (Filmed as ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ by Stanley Kubrick) (2026)

Pre-order date for Dracula has not been set as yet but we will keep in touch with full details in the forthcoming months via our newsletter and social media.

Below are more examples of Santiago Caruso’s incredible work. We hope you are as excited for this one as we are, this we believe will be the definitive edition of Stoker’s Gothic Classic.