Holiday Gift Idea 5: the best Dracula

And now we're going with something I already bought myself, because there are some things you just don't leave to chance: this absolutely amazing deluxe edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula from Union Square & Co., featuring the illustrations of Edward Gorey and an introduction by editor Marvin Kaye. It's expensive (though not quite as bad as the Howl's Moving Castle edition we mentioned on Tuesday), but that cover! The illustrations! Even the fore-edge is covered in little bats! So, so worth it. I periodically take it down off the shelf just to smile at it fondly.

Price: $40