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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.
Count Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1797–1854), the governor of the Vyborg Province, entomologist and the grandfather of Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim. Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. [1]
Dracula is a 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.An epistolary novel, 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.
A 1979 remake of the film directed and written by Werner Herzog, titled Nosferatu, Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre for the English-language release), starred Klaus Kinski (as Count Dracula, not Count Orlok). [53] The film was based on the 1922 Nosferatu film, but the characters' names are faithful to Bram Stoker novel.
However, nosferatu in that form does not appear to be a standard word in any known historical phase of Romanian (aside from that introduced by the novel and the films). [9] Internal evidence in Dracula suggests that Stoker believed the term meant "not dead" in Romanian, and thus he may have intended the word undead to be its calque. [10]
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.
Fatal exposure to sunlight of a vampire in their coffin dates at least as far back as The Story Of Yand Manor House (1898) by E. and H. Heron; such scenes in vampire films however, most especially 1922's Nosferatu and the closing scene of the 1958 film Dracula in which Count Dracula is burnt by the sun, were very influential on later vampire ...
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]