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So in that respect, it's more accurate to say he simply just took the name Dracula from that little bit of Rumanian history, and next to nothing else.
I think he based the Count much more on Sir Henry Irving. My biggest pet peeve with the Coppola film is the Dracula is portrayed outright as Vlad Tepes, rather than the character Stoker envisioned. In the novel, I believe Van Helsing mentions Dracula might be related to that family line, but not the actual Impaler himself.
Been some time since I read up on Bram. However, I believe it was the very eve of publication he changed the title from "THE UNDEAD" to "DRACULA".
What I find strange is Harker is left to die in the castle by Dracula leaving him to the three female vampires ,not only does he survive he manages to rid the world of Dracula.
Quincey indeed gives his life delivering the killing blow to Dracula.
Why has no director filmed a perfect version of the book into a movie , it's a shame
I've always loved IN SEARCH OF DRACULA by Raymond McNalley and Radu Florescu, but that work is more than 45 years old now.
Miller might be THE authority on vampire lore and Dracula in particular.
I've read in the foreword of one of the editions I have that Stoker, like Stevenson and Shelley before him, was first inspired by a nightmare but I don't know how true it is. Miller if I'm not mistaken challenged this.
Among some other books, I bought a 1974 paperback of Bram Stoker's posthumous short story collection Dracula's Guest (1914), a first edition of Barbara Belford's Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula (1996), and a paperback of Bob Curran's Explore Vampires (2007). I look forward to reading these, and this thread was the spur for my interest, so thank you.
This is the Dracula I'm most familiar with!
Hotel Transylvania 3
Now in the cinema.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5220122/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf
Turns out Donna Lucia Sciarra is a vampire.
Has anyone read this? Collection of short stories by Stoker, published 1914, two years after his death.
Yes I have. It's found in various anthologies (the Penguin Book for instance) and sometimes some editions as an officious "first chapter" or prologue. Which I think is misleading. Some people said it was an extra chapter taken off because it would make the novel too long. My theory is that it was a draft chapter of an early treatment of the novel, discarted as the story moved into a different direction (switching Austria to Transylvania for instance). It's good as a standalone story but does not fit with the rest of the novel.
Not yet, but I've just bought it. See my post above for more details, Thundy.
I must have read your post before you edited it.
Perhaps. I saw it in the window of that shop and simply had to buy it, as I'd never heard of it, nor knew that Bram Stoker had written any other Dracula story. Anyway, as @Ludovico says, it's a bit more complicated than that.
Fun fact: Garlic originated in Central Asia and Iran, but over 80% of the world production now takes place in China.
What do you mean about the garlic tip?
I find funny that holy water is often featured in vampire movies as something to wound or kill the vampire. In Dracula there's no mention of it. But they use the wafer extensively.
Well it's an old folkloric tradition probably inspired by the effect garlic apparently has on blood circulation. It has only limited effect on Dracula (you open the window and take away the flowers of garlic and he doesn't seem bothered by the remaining smell).
As far as adaptations go, it wasn't bad, and after all, Sir Laurence Olivier played a very good Van Helsing. Plus, first time we saw an automobile during the climactic chase. And John Williams's musi was top notch.
I should revisit it one day, if I can.
Since then, of course, I saw all the Christopher Lee entries (still the best portrayal of the Count for me), the Bela Lugosi version (not bad), and Gary oldman (not as good as it should have been).
EDIT : Oh, and how could I forget the very funny Love at First Bite. "Without me, Transylvania will be as exciting as Bucharest... on a Monday night." Too bad that for the DVD release, they couldn't get the rights for the original song at the disco :
I'll take the 1979 version over the '92 version honestly. More fun with a stronger cast: Langella, Olivier, and Donald Pleasence.
Wonderful costumes and a lush John Williams score.
Still as a kid I always preferred the Hammer horrors.
Francis Ford Coppala film adaption is probably the film I like the most, though I grew up watching the Hammer Horror films so alot of sentiment toward them.