Dracula

...display Auckland in world's top 10 party towns Lost in transit in Los Angeles But in 1897, when Bram Stoker penned his first novel, Dracula, about the vampire count, the popularity of vampires was in its twilight. The Irish writer drew...

In this article: Whitby Abbey, Count Dracula, James Bond, Synod of Whitby, James Cook, Bram Stoker, Yorkshire, and WGW

...majoring in English, said even if the sparkle effect is ridiculous, the idea of sunlight killing vampires was not in Bram Stoker's "Dracula," either. "He can't change shape during the day, but he also doesn't turn to dust or burn like other...

In this article: Twilight, Edward Cullen, and Stephanie Meyer

...for the memories: Vampires in pop culture After a star turn as the villainous count on Broadway, Legosi went to Hollywood and turned Dracula into a household name. Sadly, Legosi ended up typecast as a villian for the rest of his career.

In this article: New Moon, The Twilight Saga, Twilight, Vampires, Count von Count, Jonathan Frid, The Vampyre, Grandpa Munster, and JavaScript

...about the organization. In the meantime, Mendelsohn is continuing to work the old-fashioned way, one entry at a time, for his book Dracula and Kittens. With a twitter following of more than 900,000, he's confident he's doing all he can to...

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...Swan Point Cemetery, wrote about Mercy's case in "The Shunned House." It's also said that Bram Stoker used Mercy as reference for "Dracula." The Providence Biltmore, a historic building with imposing chandeliers and a giant '20s-style...

In this article: New Orleans, The Vampire's Assistant, Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice, New England, Exeter, and Swan Point Cemetery

In bookstores, Arthur Dent is hitchhiking through the galaxy again; Winnie the Pooh is back to toddling around the Hundred Acre Wood; and Dracula glides through the London fog once more. This would not be remarkable were it not for the...

In this article: Douglas Adams, Eoin Colfer, Bram Stoker, A.A. Milne, and Arthur Dent

This weekend, in The Baltimore Sun, Sam Sessa takes a look at "Dracula is Dead," a new book about Romania by the husband-wife team of James C. Rosapepe and Sheilah Kast. Rosapepe was U.S. ambassador to the country from 1998 to 2001, and...

In this article: Vlad Dracul, Romania, Bram Stoker, Bucharest, and E mail

History is repeating itself in many ways. For one, this is the "official" Dracula sequel, the book's blurb claims in blood-red font, written by a direct descendant of Stoker himself, and a well-known historian. Thematically, too, history is...

In this article: Dracula, Bram Stoker, and England

...policy. LAYTON - The Layton High School Theater Department will be taking audiences to the mysterious land of Transylvania when "Dracula - the vampire play" marks the grand opening of the new Little Theatre. It will play from Nov. 11-14...

In this article: E mail and Bram Stoker

...to cash in, that I'd genuinely be involved in the writing." Holt wanted to modernize and merge the fictional Dracula with the historical Dracula, Vlad Tepes, Stoker said. "Then we went further. Once I found the 125 pages of Bram's...

In this article: Bram Stoker, Vlad Tepes, Radu Florescu, Undead, and London