If the stitched-together journals and logs in Dracula—from Jonathan Harker’s Transylvanian diary to Dr. Seward’s phonograph notes and the Demeter’s doomed ship’s log—hooked you, you’ll love how The Historian unspools its mystery through letters, research notes, and scholarly marginalia. Like Van Helsing’s team collating clues on boxes of earth and train timetables, Kostova’s characters piece together a trail across libraries and monasteries, turning paper and ink into palpable dread.

Enjoyed how Dracula shifts among Mina, Harker, Seward, and Van Helsing as the circle tightens around the Count? 'Salem’s Lot gives you that same widening lens, following townsfolk, a schoolteacher, a priest, and others as they realize—much like when Lucy’s symptoms escalate and Renfield grows frantic—that a calculating vampire is colonizing their community, house by house.

If you relished the investigation in Dracula—tracking the boxes to Carfax, decoding shipping routes from Whitby, and coordinating stakeouts—Holmes and Watson’s hunt across the foggy moor will scratch the same itch. The way Van Helsing tests hypotheses about the Count’s limitations mirrors Holmes’s cool dismantling of the Baskerville “curse,” turning gothic terror into a puzzle you can solve.

If the bleak, candlelit menace of Dracula—from the castle’s wolf-haunted nights to the graveyard scenes with Lucy—worked on you, Mexican Gothic delivers that same suffocating darkness. As Noemí explores High Place and unearths rituals and rot, you’ll feel echoes of Carfax Abbey’s taint and the unsettling control Dracula exerts over his victims.

Loved the allied crew in Dracula—Mina’s keen mind, Harker’s grit, Van Helsing’s leadership, and the loyalty of Seward, Holmwood, and Morris? Jackson’s small group—Dr. Montague, Eleanor, Theodora, and Luke—forms a similarly charged circle, pooling their strengths inside a malevolent house much as Dracula’s hunters combine skills to confront a place steeped in harm.