The best book I have ever read would have to be Bram Stoker's _Dracula_. It is a Gothic, epistolary novel written in the Victorian era about the world's most famous and well-known vampire in the history of literature. It is funny, somber, and truly terrifying. The eerie events of the novel are told through the voices of several characters who are directly involved in the terrors created by the Count Dracula. Jonathan Harker and his wife Mina, Lucy Westenra, Dr. John Seward, and Dr. Van Helsing each relate to the accumulation of events through journals, letters, and saved clippings from the paper. I believe that a character's journal and his letters are a clever way to show raw emotions that may be hidden by those characters when they're in