Dracula The Vampire
Perhaps the most famous vampire of all times was Count Dracula. Many movies have used his character, but the novel, written by Bram Stoker, in 1897, played a very important role in his career as a well known vampire. The name of the book was “Dracula” and many say that this is the birth of the legend of the famous Count Dracula. Bram Stoker’s character in the Dracula novel, was compared to one of the best-known figures of the Romanian history - Vlad Dracula, nicknamed Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler).
Movies and Documentaries on Dracula
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) — Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder; DVD Keep Case
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Superbit Collection) (1992) — Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder; DVD Keep Case
- Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) — Christopher Lee; VHS English
- Dracula (1931) — Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler; VHS English
- Dracula : The True Story — VHS
- In Search of History:Real Dracula — VHS
- The Impaler - a biographical/historical look at Vlad the Impaler, widely known as Dracula. — VHS
Books about Vlad Tepes
- The Making of a Vampire: Vlad the Impaler,
Paracelsus, Rabbi Lowe, St. Gernmain, Dracula — Alexander Sendrea; Paperback - Vlad The Impaler: Blood Prince Of Wallachia —
Dr. Mike Bennighof, John R. Phythyon Jr.; Mass Market Paperback - Dracula, Prince of Many Faces His Life and His
Times — R. Radu/McNally Florescu (Author); Paperback - Dracula : a biography of Vlad the Impaler,
1431-1476 — Radu Florescu; Unknown Binding - Coppola and Eiko on Bram Stoker’s Dracula —
Francis Ford Coppola, et al; Hardcover - Dracula — Elizabeth Miller; Hardcover
- Dracula — Bram Stoker, Leonard Wolf
(Introduction); Mass Market Paperback - In Search of Dracula : The History of Dracula and
Vampires — Radu Florescu (Author), Raymond T. McNally (Author); Paperback - Dracula: The Connoisseur’s Guide — Leonard
Wolf; Paperback - Vlad Tepes : mit si realitate istorica — Emil
Stoian; Unknown Binding
Vlad the Impaler vs Dracula
Although by now you will have noticed that Vlad the Impaler and Count Dracula a very different characters, we would like to point out the following elements which may or may not have influenced Bram Stoker in the creation of his fearsome character.
Bram Stoker’s Life Chronology
1847 Born 8 November in Clontarf (Dublin), Ireland
Lived early childhood (bed-ridden) at 15 Marino Crescent Read more
Life of Bram Stoker
Abraham (Bram) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 at 15 The Crescent, Clontarf, North of Dublin, the third of seven children. For the first 7 years of his life Stoker was bedridden with a myriad of childhood diseases which afforded him much time to reading. By the time he went to college, Stoker had somehow overcome his childhood maladies and while at Trinity College, Dublin, the honor student was involved in soccer and was a marathon running champion. He was also involved in various literary and dramatic activities, a precursor to his later interests in the theater and his involvement with the rising action Henry Irving, whose performance he had critiqued as a student at Trinity. After graduation from college, and in his father’s footsteps, he became a civil servant, holding the position of junior clerk in the Dublin Castle.
