For more than 125 years he has been the stuff of both nightmares and fantasies—a dark, powerful, irresistible force and bringer of terror, death, and eternal damnation. His name is known throughout the world, as is his story, which has been told and retold and expanded upon countless times, with no end in sight. He is Count Dracula, the king vampire, brought to literary life—or is it undeath?—by Irish author Bram Stoker with the publication of the novel Dracula in May 1897. Since then, the book has never been out of print, and its title character has become one of the most famous fictional villains of all time, moving beyond the printed page to nearly every form of media imaginable. Over the years, Dracula has been depicted as everything from a vile, repulsive demon in human form to a feral, hissing manifestation, to a dashing, romantic, but tragic figure driven by love and the loneliness of immortality. This is Dracula's complete story—told in words and pictures with the background and intrigue to last (an eternal) lifetime.
THE ST0RY OF DRACULA
A MONSTER FOR ALL TIME • BRAM STOKER’S TALE OF THE UNDEAD HAS GAINED AN IMMORTALITY OF ITS OWN
DAWN OF THE UNDEAD • FROM BREAM STROKER’S IMAGINATION CAME ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST ENDURING HORROR CHARECTERS
BEYOND THE BOOK • THE POWER OF DRACULA GREW ON SATAGE AND SCREEN
THE LEGEND GROWS • OVER TIME, DRACULA BECAME AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE FIRST CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
FRESH BLOOD • NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF COUNT DRACULA BROUGHT BOTH CHILLS AND CHUCKLES
REEL TO REAL • AS DRACULA ENDURED, FICTION AND FACT CAME TOGETHER
UNDEAD EVOLUTION • DRACULA’S APPEAL—AND MARKETABILITY—EXTENDED TO AUDIENCES OF ALL AGES
THE VAMPIRE BITES BACK • THROUGH RETELLINGS, REEVALUATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO HIS STORY, DRACULA HAS EVOLVED
THE POWER OF DRACULA • THE COUNT’S ONGOING POPULARITY HAS BLURRED THE LINES BETWEEN HISTORY AND FANTASY
The Story Of Dracula
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