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Character created by Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel of the same name. A mesmerizing, ruthless vampire , Dracula captured the public imagination, especially following Bela Lugosi 's elegant and chilling portrayal of Count Dracula in Tod Browning 's 1931 horror film version. Stoker had named the character for the notoriously cruel Vlad ...

vampire

vampire in folklore, animated corpse that sucks the blood of humans. Belief in vampires has existed from the earliest times and has given rise to an amalgam of legends and superstitions. They were most commonly thought of as spirits or demons that left their graves at night to seek and enslave ...

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker (Abraham Stoker), 1847-1912, English novelist, b. Ireland. He is best remembered as the author of Dracula (1897), a horror story recounting the adventures of the vampire Count Dracula. The fame of the leading character was furthered by popular stage and film adaptations of the ...

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	A LIFELESS `DRACULA' The Boston Ballet production offers special scenery and effects, but choreography leaves little to sink one's teeth into ; DRACULA Presented by Boston Ballet At: the Wang Theatre last night...with changing casts, through May 23. What Boston Ballet's "Dracula" has: spooky lighting; million dollar sets and costumes...recognition. What it doesn't: compelling choreography. "Dracula" never ventures beyond the stale conventions of ... Read more
	Studio threatens to bleed Dracula theme park dry As Transylvania prepares to cash in on story, Hollywood demands payment for vampire images ; COUNT DRACULA, Romania's most celebrated son, is at...Irish novelist Bram Stoker who published Dracula in 1897, has long been one of Romania...the 15th-century ruler of Walachia, the Dracula legend annually attracts more than 50... Read more
	A different kind of Dracula ; SWORD OF DRACULA IMAGE COMICS LAST week, we took a look...late- year debuts has got to be Sword Of Dracula, which is Image Comics' best new release...is quite possibly the best version of Dracula since Bram Stoker published his classic... Read more
	Monstrous infants and vampyric mothers in Bram Stoker's Dracula ; Bram Stoker's Dracula continues to fascinate and horrify audiences...object-relatedness. The imaginative source of the Dracula figure is posited as Stoker's early invalidism...and charismatic actor. Implicit in the Dracula story are ideas of intrusively experienced... Read more
	The outsider.(Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood)(Book Review) ; JOSEPH VALENTE Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question...University of Illinois Press, 2002. JOSEPH VALENTE'S Dracula's Crypt represents an important full-length study of Dracula in the Irish context. The central rationale for... Read more
	DRACULA MONSTERS COME AND GO, BUT THE COUNT STILL BITES.(Entertainment) ; For a century, Dracula has been studied, worshiped, lampooned...And quite understandably so. Consider: Dracula is the perfect man. He's mysterious...doesn't drink . . . wine. Seriously, the Dracula myth taps into some universal human issues... Read more
	DRACULA, FRIENDS GOING STRONG.(Books)(Column)(Review) ; Byline: BY MARK GRAHAM DRACULA By Bram Stoker (Tor, $19.95). Time is...August 1897, ``The audacity and horror of Dracula are Mr. Stoker's own. A summery (sic...nearly the whole with rapt attention.'' DRACULA: THE CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE By Leonard... Read more
	Andy Warhol Presents Dracula. ; ...Romania--For virgin blood, Count Dracula has got to go to Italy, his manservant Anton tells him. Please, not Italy! Dracula says. As a vampire, he has reason...that it's 1923. Andy Warhol Presents Dracula, a movie by Paul Morrissey (1974... Read more
	Dracula's Dead, All Right; Film Isn't Too Lively Either ; DRACULA: DEAD AND LOVING IT (STAR) (STAR) Dracula Leslie Nielsen Renfield Peter MacNicol Harker Steven Weber...Frankenstein" (1974), but he seems to have forgotten it in "Dracula: Dead and Loving It," the new stop on his tour of horror... Read more
	Stoker's 'Dracula.' (Bram Stoker) ; Bram Stoker ends his famous novel Dracula with a four-paragraph note. These paragraphs...The flurry of scholarly activity around Dracula in the past fifteen years has centered...not know what he was doing as he wrote Dracula.(3) A single sentence nestled in the note... Read more

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