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Bram Stoker's novel takes the form of an epistolary tale, in which Count Dracula's characteristics, powers, abilities, and weaknesses are narrated by multiple narrators, from different perspectives. [15] Count Dracula is an undead, centuries-old vampire, and a Transylvanian nobleman who claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun. [16]
Dracula Cover of the first edition Author Bram Stoker Language English Genre Gothic Horror Publisher Archibald Constable and Company (UK) Publication date 26 May 1897 ; 127 years ago (1897-05-26) Publication place United Kingdom Pages 418 OCLC 1447002 Text Dracula at Wikisource Dracula is a 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related ...
R. M. Renfield is a fictional character who appears in Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. [2] He is Count Dracula's deranged, fanatically devoted servant and familiar, helping him in his plan to turn Mina Harker into a vampire in return for a continuous supply of insects to consume and the promise of immortality.
Count Dracula began appearing on musical records as early as 1958 when horror host John Zacherle recorded the novelty single "Dinner with Drac" which charted on the Billboard Pop Singles chart the same year. [130] [131] When Dick Clark played it on his American Bandstand television show, he requested Zacherle record a less-violent version. [130]
The cover of The Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #1 (April 1972), in which Gerry Conway and Gene Nolan's iteration of Bram Stoker's character made his debut. Cover by Neal Adams.. The Marvel Comics version of Dracula was created by Gerry Conway and Gene Colan and first appeared in The Tomb of Dracula #1 (April 1972), co-written by Marv Wolfman. [2]
Count Orlok (German: Graf Orlok; Romanian: Contele Orlok) is a fictional character who first appeared in the silent film Nosferatu (1922) directed by F. W. Murnau.Based on Bram Stoker's Count Dracula, he is played by German actor Max Schreck, and is depicted as a repulsive vampire descended from Belial, who leaves his homeland of Transylvania to spread the plague in the idyllic city of Wisborg ...
The comic novel Dracula's Diary by Michael Geare and Michael Corby (ISBN 978-0825301438) completely re-tells the Stoker novel, with the young Count Dracula (who has been learning to act like a true British gentleman) becoming a secret agent for Her Majesty's government and Van Helsing an enemy agent for a foreign power who is continually ...
Drak Jr. (voiced by Jerry Dexter) – The great-great-grandnephew of Count Dracula and leader of the Drak Pack. Drak's powers include flight, telekinesis , changing shape, and walking on walls. Unlike most cartoon vampires, Drak may assume a variety of forms, although he favors a bat.