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Dracula

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Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. [1]

175 relations: Abhartach, Abraham Van Helsing, Allium, Ann Radcliffe, Aos Sí, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Holmwood, Ármin Vámbéry, BBC, Bela Lugosi, Berne Convention, Bestseller, Blood transfusion, Bloodline (Cary novel), Bowie knife, Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Brâncovenești, Mureș, Brides of Dracula, Budapest, Bukovina, Capitalism, Carmilla, Carpathian Mountains, Catholic Church, Charles Boner, Christianity, Christopher Frayling, Christopher Lee, Church of Saint Mary, Whitby, Clinical vampirism, Coin, Colonialism, Constable & Robinson, Count Dracula, Count Dracula (1970 film), Count Dracula (1977 film), Count Orlok, Dacre Stoker, Daily Mail, David J. Skal, Decapitation, Diary, Doubleday (publisher), Dracula (1924 play), Dracula (1931 English-language film), Dracula (1958 film), Dracula (1979 film), Dracula in popular culture, Dracula's Daughter, ..., Dracula's Death, Earl of Erroll, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Van Sloan, Elizabeth Báthory, Elizabeth Miller (academic), Emily Brontë, Emily Gerard, Entertainment Weekly, Epistolary novel, Exeter, F. W. Murnau, Florence Balcombe, Francis Ford Coppola, Franco Moretti, Frank Langella, Frankenstein, Gary Oldman, Gothic fiction, Gray wolf, H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Hamilton Deane, Hammer Film Productions, Henrik Galeen, Henry Irving, Herbert Bunston, History of psychiatric institutions, History of Romania, Hollis Robbins, Horace Liveright, Horror fiction, Hungary, Impalement, Internet Archive, Invasion literature, J. D. Barker, James Malcolm Rymer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Badham, John L. Balderston, John Seward, John William Polidori, Jonathan Harker, Jules Verne, Kingdom of Hungary, Klaus Kinski, Kukri, Leonard Wolf, Lesbian vampire, Leslie S. Klinger, List of contemporary epistolary novels, Literary genre, Logbook, Lord Byron, Lost film, Louis Jourdan, Lucy Westenra, Lyceum Theatre, London, Mary Shelley, Mina Harker, Miscegenation, Moldavia, Monopoly, Munich, New Slains Castle, Nina Auerbach, Nosferatu, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Order of chivalry, Order of the Dragon, Oscar Wilde, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turks, Patronymic, Penny dreadful, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Peter Cushing, Proselytism, Psychiatry, Quincey Morris, Radu Florescu, Raymond T. McNally, Real estate, Renfield, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Robert Louis Stevenson, Romani people, Romanian language, Romanians, Rudyard Kipling, Sacramental bread, Sheridan Le Fanu, Sherlock Holmes, Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Sigmund Freud, Solicitor, Sotheby's, Synod of Whitby, Terence Fisher, The American Historical Review, The Book of Renfield, The Brides of Dracula, The Carpathian Castle, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Vampyre, Transylvania, Transylvanian Saxons, Universal monsters, Universal Pictures, Vampire, Vampire literature, Varna, Varney the Vampire, Vlad II Dracul, Vlad the Impaler, Wallachia, Walpurgis Night, Werner Herzog, Whitby, William Wilkinson (diplomat), Wuthering Heights. Expand index (125 more) »

Abhartach

Abhartach (also avartagh, Irish for dwarf) is an early Irish legend, which was first collected in Patrick Weston Joyce's The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1875).

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Abraham Van Helsing

Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character from the 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula.

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Allium

Allium is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants that includes hundreds of species, including the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives.

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Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe (born Ward, 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel.

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Aos Sí

The aos sí (older form aes sídhe) is the Irish term for a supernatural race in Irish mythology and Scottish mythology (where it is usually spelled Sìth, but pronounced the same), comparable to the fairies or elves.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Arthur Holmwood

Sir Arthur "Art" Holmwood (Later Lord Godalming) is a fictional character of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.

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Ármin Vámbéry

Ármin Vámbéry, also known as Arminius Vámbéry (19 March 183215 September 1913), was a Hungarian Turkologist and traveller.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bela Lugosi

Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.

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Berne Convention

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, usually known as the Berne Convention, is an international agreement governing copyright, which was first accepted in Berne, Switzerland, in 1886.

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Bestseller

A bestseller is, usually, a book that is included on a list of top-selling or frequently-borrowed titles, normally based on publishing industry and book trade figures and library circulation statistics; such lists may be published by newspapers, magazines, or book store chains.

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Blood transfusion

Blood transfusion is generally the process of receiving blood or blood products into one's circulation intravenously.

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Bloodline (Cary novel)

Bloodline is a 2005 novel written by Kate Cary.

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Bowie knife

A Bowie knife is a pattern of fixed-blade fighting knife created by James Black in the early 19th century for Jim Bowie, who had become famous for his use of a large knife at a duel known as the Sandbar Fight.

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Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

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Brâncovenești, Mureș

Brâncovenești (formerly Ieciu and Delavrancea; Marosvécs, Hungarian pronunciation: or Vécs; Wetsch) is a commune in Mureș County, Romania.

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Brides of Dracula

The Brides of Dracula are characters in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union.

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Bukovina

Bukovina (Bucovina; Bukowina/Buchenland; Bukowina; Bukovina, Буковина Bukovyna; see also other languages) is a historical region in Central Europe,Klaus Peter Berger,, Kluwer Law International, 2010, p. 132 divided between Romania and Ukraine, located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Carmilla

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Irish author, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years.

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Carpathian Mountains

The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a mountain range system forming an arc roughly long across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe (after the Scandinavian Mountains). They provide the habitat for the largest European populations of brown bears, wolves, chamois, and lynxes, with the highest concentration in Romania, as well as over one third of all European plant species.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Charles Boner

Charles Boner (1815–1870) was an English travel writer, poet and translator.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Christopher Frayling

Sir Christopher John Frayling (born 25 December 1946) is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English character actor, singer, and author.

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Church of Saint Mary, Whitby

The Church of Saint Mary is an Anglican parish church serving the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire England.

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Clinical vampirism

Clinical vampirism, more commonly called Renfield's syndrome or Renfield syndrome, is an obsession with drinking blood.

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Coin

A coin is a small, flat, (usually) round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion and health.

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Constable & Robinson

Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an imprint of Little, Brown which publishes fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.

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Count Dracula

Count Dracula is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula.

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Count Dracula (1970 film)

Count Dracula (German: Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht, lit. "At Night, When Dracula Awakes"), released in Italy as Il conte Dracula, in Spain as El Conde Drácula and in France as Les Nuits de Dracula, is a 1969 Spanish-Italian-German-British horror film (released in 1970), directed by Jesús Franco and starring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom and Klaus Kinski.

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Count Dracula (1977 film)

Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

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Count Orlok

Count Orlok (Graf Orlok) is the main antagonist and title character portrayed by German actor Max Schreck (1879–1936) in the classic 1922 silent film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens.

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Dacre Stoker

Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American author, sportsman and filmmaker.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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David J. Skal

David John Skal (born June 21, 1952 in Garfield Heights, Ohio) is an American cultural historian, critic, writer, and on-camera commentator known for his research and analysis of horror films and horror literature.

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Decapitation

Decapitation is the complete separation of the head from the body.

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Diary

A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States.

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Dracula (1924 play)

Dracula is a stage play written by Hamilton Deane in 1924, then substantially revised by John L. Balderston in 1927.

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Dracula (1931 English-language film)

Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code vampire-horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula.

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Dracula (1958 film)

Dracula is a 1958 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Jimmy Sangster based on Bram Stoker's novel of the same name.

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Dracula (1979 film)

Dracula is a 1979 British-American horror film directed by John Badham.

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Dracula in popular culture

The character of Count Dracula from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, has remained popular over the years, and many films have used the Count as a villain, while others have named him in their titles, such as Dracula's Daughter, The Brides of Dracula, and Dracula's Dog.

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Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter is a 1936 American vampire horror film produced by Universal Pictures as a sequel to the 1931 film Dracula.

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Dracula's Death

Dracula's Death, or Drakula halála, sometimes translated as The Death of Drakula, was a 1921 Hungarian silent horror film that was written and directed by Károly Lajthay.

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Earl of Erroll

Earl of Erroll is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Edward Van Sloan

Edward Van Sloan (November 1, 1882 – March 6, 1964) was an American film character actor best remembered for his roles in the Universal Studios horror films such as Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), and The Mummy (1932).

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Elizabeth Báthory

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Báthory Erzsébet, Alžbeta Bátoriová; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged murderer from the Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Hungary and Slovakia) and Transylvania (now Romania), which were areas of Habsburg monarchy.

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Elizabeth Miller (academic)

Elizabeth Russell Miller (born February 26, 1939) is Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

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Emily Gerard

(Jane) Emily Gerard (7 May 1849 – 11 January 1905) was a nineteenth-century author best known for the influence her collections of Transylvanian folklore had on Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Epistolary novel

An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England, with a population of 129,800 (mid-2016 EST).

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F. W. Murnau

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director.

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Florence Balcombe

Florence Balcombe (17 July 1858 – 25 May 1937) was the wife and literary executor of Bram Stoker.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer.

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Franco Moretti

Franco Moretti (born 1950 in Sondrio) is an Italian literary scholar, trained as a Marxist critic, whose work focuses on the history of the novel as a "planetary form".

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Frank Langella

Frank A. Langella Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

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Gary Oldman

Gary Leonard OldmanBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005. (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker who has performed in theatre, film and television.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Gray wolf

The gray wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf,Paquet, P. & Carbyn, L. W. (2003).

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells.

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H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

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Hamilton Deane

Hamilton Deane (1880–1958) was an Irish actor, playwright and director.

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Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions is a British film production company based in London.

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Henrik Galeen

Henrik Galeen (7 January 1881 – 30 July 1949) was an Austrian-born actor, screenwriter and film director considered an influential figure in the development of German Expressionist cinema during the silent era.

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Henry Irving

Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), born John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre.

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Herbert Bunston

Herbert Bunston (15 April 1874 – 27 February 1935) was an English stage and screen actor.

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History of psychiatric institutions

The rise of the lunatic asylum and its gradual transformation into, and eventual replacement by, the modern psychiatric hospital, explains the rise of organised, institutional psychiatry.

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History of Romania

This article provides only a brief outline of each period of the history of Romania; details are presented in separate articles (see the links in the box and below).

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Hollis Robbins

Hollis Robbins (born 1963) is an American academic and scholar in the humanities, specializing in literature and poetry.

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Horace Liveright

Horace Brisbin Liveright (10 December 1883 – 24 September 1933) was an American publisher and stage producer.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

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Impalement

Impalement, as a method of execution and also torture, is the penetration of a human by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, often by complete or partial perforation of the torso.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Invasion literature

Invasion literature (or the invasion novel) is a literary genre most notable between 1871 and the First World War (1914) but still practised to this day.

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J. D. Barker

J.D. Barker (Jonathan Dylan Barker) is an international bestselling American author of suspense thrillers, often incorporating elements of horror, crime, mystery, science fiction, and the supernatural.

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James Malcolm Rymer

James Malcolm Rymer (1814–1884) was a British nineteenth century writer of penny dreadfuls, and is the co-author with Thomas Peckett Prest of both Varney the Vampire (1847) and The String of Pearls (1847), in which the notorious villain Sweeney Todd makes his literary debut.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.

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John Badham

John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an English-born American director of film and television, best known for the films Saturday Night Fever (1977), Dracula (1979), Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), Short Circuit (1986), and Stakeout (1987).

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John L. Balderston

John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889, in Philadelphia – March 8, 1954, in Los Angeles) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts.

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John Seward

Dr.

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John William Polidori

John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician.

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Jonathan Harker

Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed from the Middle Ages into the twentieth century (1000–1946 with the exception of 1918–1920).

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Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski (born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski; 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor.

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Kukri

The kukri or khukuri (खुकुरी khukuri) is a Nepalese knife with an inwardly curved blade, similar to a machete, used as both a tool and as a weapon in Nepal.

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Leonard Wolf

Leonard Wolf is a poet, author, teacher, and the father of Naomi Wolf.

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Lesbian vampire

Lesbian vampirism is a trope in 20th-century exploitation film and literature that has its roots in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla (1872) about the love of a female vampire (the title character) for a young woman (the narrator): Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration.

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Leslie S. Klinger

Leslie S. Klinger (born May 2, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American attorney and writer.

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List of contemporary epistolary novels

An epistolary novel tells its story through correspondence, letters, telegrams, and the like.

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Literary genre

A literary genre is a category of literary composition.

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Logbook

A logbook (a ship's logs or simply log) is a record of important events in the management, operation, and navigation of a ship.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.

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Lost film

A lost film is a feature or short film that is no longer known to exist in any studio archives, private collections, or public archives, such as the U.S. Library of Congress.

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Louis Jourdan

Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor.

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Lucy Westenra

Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the novel Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker.

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Lyceum Theatre, London

The Lyceum Theatre (pronounced ly-CEE-um) is a 2,100-seat West End theatre located in the City of Westminster, on Wellington Street, just off the Strand.

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Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ''Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818).

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Mina Harker

Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker (née Murray) is a fictional character in Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.

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Miscegenation

Miscegenation (from the Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, or procreation.

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Moldavia

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Monopoly

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Munich

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Nina Auerbach

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Nosferatu

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Nosferatu the Vampyre

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Order of chivalry

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Order of the Dragon

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Oscar Wilde

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Ottoman Empire

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Ottoman Turks

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Patronymic

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Penny dreadful

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Peter Cushing

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Proselytism

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Psychiatry

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Quincey Morris

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Radu Florescu

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Raymond T. McNally

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Real estate

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Renfield

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Robert Eighteen-Bisang

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Romani people

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Romanian language

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Romanians

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Rudyard Kipling

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Sacramental bread

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Sheridan Le Fanu

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Sherlock Holmes

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Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

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Sigmund Freud

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Solicitor

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Sotheby's

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Synod of Whitby

The Synod of Whitby (664 A.D.) was a Northumbrian synod where King Oswiu of Northumbria ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to the customs of Rome, rather than the customs practised by Irish monks at Iona and its satellite institutions.

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Terence Fisher

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The American Historical Review

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The Book of Renfield

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The Brides of Dracula

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The Carpathian Castle

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The Curse of Frankenstein

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The Fall of the House of Usher

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839.

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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

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The Mysteries of Udolpho

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The Vampyre

"The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori.

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Transylvania

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Transylvanian Saxons

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Universal monsters

The Universal monsters are fictional monsters that figured in various horror, suspense and science fiction films made by Universal Studios during the decades of the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Universal Pictures

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Vampire

A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living.

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Vampire literature

Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires.

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Varna

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Varney the Vampire

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Vlad II Dracul

Vlad II (Vlad al II-lea), also known as Vlad Dracul (Vlad al II-lea Dracul) or Vlad the Dragon (before 1395 – November 1447), was Voivode of Wallachia from 1436 to 1442, and again from 1443 to 1447.

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Vlad the Impaler

Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Țepeș) or Vlad Dracula (1428/311476/77), was voivode (or prince) of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death.

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Wallachia

Wallachia or Walachia (Țara Românească; archaic: Țeara Rumânească, Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: Цѣра Рȣмѫнѣскъ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania.

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Walpurgis Night

Walpurgis Night, an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German Sankt Walpurgisnacht), also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve), is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is celebrated on the night of 30 April and the day of 1 May.

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director.

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Whitby

Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Borough of Scarborough and English county of North Yorkshire.

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William Wilkinson (diplomat)

William Wilkinson (died 1836) was British Consul to the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, appointed to Bucharest by the Levant Company in 1813; he was recalled in 1816.

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula

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