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Dracula

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Dracula: see Stoker, Bram Stoker, Bram (Abraham Stoker), 1847–1912, English novelist, b. Ireland. He is best remembered as the author of Dracula (1897), a horror story recounting the adventures of the vampire Count Dracula.
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; Vlad IV Vlad IV, 1431?–1476, prince of Walachia (1448, 1456–62, 1476), known as Vlad the Impaler. He was the son of Prince Vlad Dracul (Vlad the Devil) and is therefore also called Dracula or son of the Devil.
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Dracula

Character created by Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel of the same name. A mesmerizing, ruthless vampire, Dracula captured the public imagination, especially following Bela Lugosi's elegant and chilling portrayal of Count Dracula in Tod Browning's 1931 horror film version. Stoker had named the character for the notoriously cruel Vlad III Tepes (1431–76), a ruler of Walachia, whose epithet was Dracula (“Son of the Dragon”).Vlad was said to have put to death 20,000 men, women, and children by impaling them upright on stakes. The Dracula character became a stock figure in the horror repertoire, portrayed with varying degrees of sympathy and repulsion.


Dracula
eerie tale of vampires and werewolves. [Br. Lit.: Dracula]


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Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
 
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