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The claimed connection between the castle and the Dracula legend is tourism-driven. [16] During Stoker's research on the region of Transylvania, he came across accounts of the atrocities committed by Vlad III, and used the Dracula name after reading on the subject; but his inspiration for Dracula was not solely based on the historical figure.
Castle Dracula (also known as Dracula’s castle) is the fictitious Transylvanian residence of Count Dracula, the vampire antagonist in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula. It is the setting of the first few and final scenes of the novel.
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles.It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula.
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Count Dracula (/ ˈ d r æ k j ʊ l ə,-j ə-/) is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction.
The fictional Castle Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula; Bran Castle, a tourist attraction in Romania; Poenari Castle, a castle of Vlad III Dracula; Hunyad Castle, a castle which was Vlad III Dracula's prison; Orava Castle, a location where Nosferatu was filmed "Castle Dracula", a song by Priestess from certain editions of the album Prior ...
The main character Dia becomes Dracula's fourth bride. In Dracula's Brides: A Paranormal Romance Anthology, the three Brides are named Crina, Emilia and Isabella. In The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, the two dark-haired brides are sisters Kisaiya and Lillai. The blonde bride is an unnamed countess.
The first film to make the Dracula character and the historical Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, one and the same person and feature a romance between Dracula and a former love reincarnated in a new body (an element that was taken from Dan Curtis' Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966-1971)). Blood for Dracula: 1974 Italy/France: Paul Morrissey