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In contrast to the mixed reaction to Stoker's previous work, the Dracula sequel Dracula the Un-dead, the critical response to Dracul has been positive. [4] Kirkus Reviews wrote that it "will no doubt be a hit among monster-movie and horror lit fans—and for good reason", noting that it is "a lively if unlovely story, in which the once febrile Bram becomes a sort of Indiana Jones".
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.
Stoker never enjoyed much commercial success from his legendary book, but in 1931, "Dracula" made it big as a motion picture, with Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi in the title role. Shocking in its ...
The 2006 film Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse features a character named Jacob Van Helsing (Rhett Giles), who is implied to be a descendant of the original. The 2009 film Stan Helsing is a comedic film revolving around satirizing the Van Helsing descendant of the 2004 feature film. In the 2012 TV film, Scooby-Doo!
Billy Campbell in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - he is portrayed faithfully to his counterpart in the novel. Alessio Boni in Dracula (2002) - here the events are updated to modern times and Quincey is a businessman specialising in money swindles. Keir Knight (as "Quincy Morris of Texas") in Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
After all, Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel was a dark tale, filled with blood and death – and un-death – and the occasional stake through the heart. But there wasn’t much to giggle about. But ...
Here the visitor is Thomas, Tom or Tómas Harker, rather than Jonathan, and Dracula becomes Draculitz. The early part of the story is similar to Stoker's, but where Stoker's Dracula lives alone, in Powers he shares his castle with a deaf-mute housekeeper and a cult of ape-like followers.
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 ]