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For The Love of Dracula
Now I know that most of you have had your fill of Dracula. That tall, handsome pale fellow, with sharp fangs, bats in his eyes and that stunning long black cape. Many centuries old he has the experience of having lived through all of the centuries and has met more people than we ever will. Once Hollywood got a hold of him the theaters were filled with hundreds of different Dracula movie versions. My two very favorite are the original Dracula with Bela Lugosi and a more romantic version with Frank Langella.
Irish Author Bram Stoker
We would have not had the pleasure and would have missed meeting this fellow entirely if Irish writer Bram Stoker had not written his classic vampire novel “Dracula”. The first copies of his …show more content…

This earned him literary fame and the novel became known as a masterpiece of Victorian-era Gothic literature. I have read this novel both in English and Latvian and I really liked the style it was written in. As if the main characters were keeping diaries and journals of all that went on. I have often wondered where he got the idea about writing about vampires but then I discovered that there were stories lurking around about vampires long before Stoker came along. His vampire or rather let’s say Count Dracula lived in a large castle in Eastern Europe in Romania. A place called Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains. Once the story got around Transylvania became quite a popular place. In the novel the Count purchases property in Yorkshire, England and takes an ocean voyage to look for more victims so he could have fresh blood and could go on …show more content…

Then the sales of the novel started to grow when it was adapted for Broadway in New York City in the 1920s. Then along came Hollywood and Universal Studios created the blockbuster movies classic starring Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi as Dracula in 1931. This classic can still be viewed today and since then dozens of vampire movies, TV shows and literature have followed the steps of Count Dracula. I’m sure a lot of you remember the cult hit TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and the bestselling novels of American writer Anne Rice. No one will ever say, “Dracula

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