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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 name Dracula, which is now primarily known as the name of a vampire, was for centuries known as the sobriquet of Vlad III. [7] [8] Diplomatic reports and popular stories referred to him as Dracula, Dracuglia, or Drakula already in the 15th century. [7] He himself signed his two letters as "Dragulya" or "Drakulya" in the late 1470s. [9]
2019 graffiti of Dracula, the archetypal vampire. Dracula is one of the most famous and influential works of English literature. [221] Although not the first novel to depict vampires, [222] the work dominates both popular and scholarly treatments of vampire fiction. [74] Count Dracula is the first character to come to mind when people discuss ...
Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912), popularly known as Bram Stoker, was an Irish author who wrote the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.The work is widely considered a milestone in Vampire fiction. [1]
As Lugosi played a vampire in three other movies during his career (Mark of the Vampire (1935), The Return of the Vampire (1943), and Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952) [42]), this contributed to the public misconception that he portrayed Dracula on film many times, although the other vampire roles had him playing Dracula in all but name.
"Dracula," the Gothic, mysterious and supernatural vampire novel from 1897 may have been set in Transylvania and England but its author, Stoker, was a Dubliner.
Ask somebody to describe a vampire and the odds are good they’ll do an impression of Bela Lugosi in Dracula, an early entry in Universal’s Picture’s franchise of “Classic Monsters ...
A wordless film interpretation of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's take of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 2003 United Kingdom/United States: Stephen Norrington: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Shane West: Mina Harker, now a vampire thanks to her encounter with Dracula, is a member of the League. Van Helsing: 2004 ...