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How Did Bram Stokers Towards The End Of The Ninetieth Century?

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Towards the end of the ninetieth century there was a strong Gothic revival with the publication of novels such as Carmilla (1872) by Sheridan Le Fanu, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) by Oscar Wilde, Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker, etc... Vampires instigated terror among the readers in Le Fanu and Stoker's books. The trend started by Polidori with its seductive vampire was imitated with the female vampire Carmilla and the popular figure of Count Dracula. These nightly and cursed creatures represented society's deepest fear: the otherness. Outsiders landed at the readers' home lands to start a massacre praying on young ladies and what was even more outrageous, also men
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