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Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse


Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse (also known simply as Dracula's Curse) is a 2006 horror film by The Asylum, written and directed by Leigh Scott. Despite featuring Bram Stoker's name in the title, the film is not directly based on any of his writings or a mockbuster to the 1992 film "Bram Stoker's Dracula", but shares similarities to films such as "", "Dracula 2000", "" and "Van Helsing". The film also shares some similarities with the 1971 Hammer horror
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's curse to consume the human race. Critical reaction to "Dracula's Curse" has been mixed to positive. Scott Foy of "Dread Central" wrote, ""Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse" isn't a bad movie. If you're looking for a vampire film cut from the same cloth as "" or the short-lived TV series "" then you'll probably dig "Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse", but you'll need to have a little patience." Patrick Luce of "
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show), then this will probably still be of interest, and is entertaining as such. But if your tastes run more to the fast 'n' furious style of vampire cinema which Hollywood currently prefers, then it's likely less recommended." "Horror DNA"'s review said, "[It's] the best movie The Asylum has to offer. ... Scott has crafted something slick in "Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse". It is a perfect starting point for those wanting to delve into the low
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Monsters and Critics" said, "Although at times some of the acting is a bit stiff and the special effects are a bit lacking, "Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse" ... is still packed full of enough gun fights, sword fights and vampire action to deliver a 'popcorn' rollercoaster ride of a fun movie." "Trash City"'s review stated, "Though falling some way short of perfection, if you liked "Hellsing" (the anime) or "Ultraviolet" (the Brit-TV
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Dracula: Resurrection


the game's world, often with the help of an object called the Dragon Ring. Production of "Dracula" was led by Jacques Simian of Index+. It was the company's first traditional video game: the team had previously created software with an educational and cultural tourism emphasis, a style that informed "Dracula"s design. Building from myths, legends, Bram Stoker's novel and films about vampires, "Dracula"s creators sought to create a follow-up to Stoker's story that was imbued with the same atmosphere of dread
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Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest


Bram Stoker and he has a relationship with Admiral Murray's daughter, Elizabeth in Victorian England. He works in a real estate company and has just given his career a boost by finding a home for the firm's new client, Count Dracula. The Admiral is not impressed with Bram and insists he and Elizabeth observe a year's separation to test their love before he'll give his blessing to their marriage. Bram accepts and leaves to begin his year but Elizabeth is rebellious and runs off, presumably to find Bram in Scotland
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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. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. "Dracula" grossed $215 million on a $40 million budget. Rotten Tomatoes' consensus cited "some terrific performances", although Reeves's performance has been widely criticized. It was nominated for four Academy Awards
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Dracula the Un-dead


Dracula the Un-dead is a sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula". The book was written by Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Previously, Holt had been a direct-to-DVD horror screenwriter, and Stoker a track and field coach. In the novel's afterword, the authors discuss the many alterations made to the original novel's events, due to the many inconsistencies in the original and the desire for the Stoker family to reassert control over Dracula fiction.
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-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, decided to write "a sequel that bore the Stoker name" to "reestablish creative control over" the original novel, with encouragement from screenwriter Ian Holt, because of the Stokers' frustrating history with "Dracula's" copyright. In 2009, "Dracula: The Un-Dead" was released, written by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Both writers "based [their work] on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition" along with
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Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest


Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (also known as just "Dracula's Guest") is a 2008 film that was written and directed by Michael Feifer. It was released direct to video in August 2008 and is loosely based on Bram Stoker's 1914 novel "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories". The story opens showing a young man finding a young woman he knows behind bars, having been imprisoned and raped. He swears to get her out and the scene cuts to six months earlier. The young man is
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Dacre Stoker


J. Gordon Melton and John Edgar Browning. Stoker directed, produced and wrote the 2011 documentary film "Dracula meets Stoker". Stoker, with his colleague Hans C. De Roos, is currently working on a Bram Stoker Dracula travel guide which will identify real-life locations mentioned in Stoker's novel as well as highlight the places Bram grew up in. In 2018, he released ‘’Dracul’’, a prequel to Dracula which he wrote alongside J.D. Barker. His wife, Jenne Stoker, and their two children live
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (pinball)


Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1993 pinball machine released by Williams. It is based in the 1992 film "Bram Stoker's Dracula". The game was characterized by its unusual blood-red DMD display (most other games at the time used orange for their color) as well as a "Multi-Multi-Ball" mode, where up to three different multiball variations could be active at the same time, with each successive active mode providing a jackpot multiplier of up to 3x. It also featured a unique variation
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (video game)


CD-ROM version for DOS was released in 1995. Each console has a different styled genre game based on the film, and in most games the single player character is Jonathan Harker, who is one of the main protagonists of the Dracula film, and the original novel by Bram Stoker, which the film was based on. Bram Stoker's Dracula for the Game Boy is a 1993 video game that bears a closer resemblance to platform games such as "Super Mario Land" than horror films. The player controls a young
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List of minor Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters


Drew Goddard). Outside of canon, Dracula appears in "Spike vs. Dracula", which reveals that Dracula has connections to the gypsy clan that cursed Angel with a soul. As established by his appearance in "Buffy vs. Dracula", he is an acquaintance of Anya and Spike. Spike describes Dracula as a sell-out of the vampire world, fond of magic and Hollywood, and complains that his craving for fame allowed Bram Stoker to tell the whole world how to kill vampires; furthermore, "Poncy bugger owes
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Dracula


Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. "Dracula" has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel
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Dracula: Origin


plot follows the story of Bram Stoker's "Dracula", with some variation in characters and plot detail. At first a zealot of Christendom, Voivod Dracula forsakes his faith at the loss of his unrequited love, who opts to commit suicide rather than give in to him. As his embitterment boils, Dracula begins to delve heavily into Satanic practice. Unsatisfied with mortality, he drinks the blood of a rival in a pact with the Devil, placing upon himself the curse that transforms him into the first vampire. In exchange
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Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula


Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (alternately titled Dracula: The Dark Prince and Dark Prince: Legend of Dracula) is a horror-war television film, which premiered in the United States on the USA Network on Halloween, October 31, 2000. It is about Vlad III Dracula, "the Impaler", the historical figure who gave Bram Stoker's Dracula his name. "Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula" tells the story of Vlad Dracula, the historical figure who gave Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Mina Harker


some media, Mina is killed at some point in the story, while in others, she becomes a full vampire and keeps her powers after the death of Dracula. In "Dracula the Un-dead," (2009) co-written by Dacre Stoker, a great-nephew of the original author, Mina's son, Quincey, is claimed to be a product of rape and Dracula's biologically human son, conceived at some point when Dracula was attacking Mina. In "From the Pages of Bram Stoker's
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the chapel where he renounced his faith, Dracula lies dying in an ancient demonic form. He and Mina share a kiss as the candles adorning the chapel light up and the cross repairs itself. Dracula turns back to his younger self and asks Mina to give him peace. Mina thrusts the knife through his heart and as he finally dies, the mark on her forehead disappears, as Dracula's curse is lifted. She decapitates him and gazes up at a fresco of Vlad and Elisabeta ascending to Heaven together, reunited at long
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (video game)


Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1993 video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Game Boy, Master System, Genesis, Sega CD, Game Gear, MS-DOS and Amiga games consoles. Based on the 1992 movie of the same name which in turn is based on the 1897 novel by Bram Stoker, each version of the game was essentially identical (except for the Sega CD, Amiga and MS-DOS versions). The Amiga version was released in 1994 for North America and Europe. A
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Dracula (miniseries)


Dracula, also known as Dracula's Curse, is a 2002 Italian 2 part TV-miniseries written and directed by Roger Young and starring Patrick Bergin, Giancarlo Giannini and Stefania Rocca. It is based on the 1897 novel of the same name by Bram Stoker, though it updates the events of the novel to the present day. At a ballroom of a hospital charity party in Budapest, the successful American lawyer Jonathan Harker (Hardy Krüger Jr.) suddenly proposes to his girlfriend Mina (Stefania Rocca). He wants to marry
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film "Countess Dracula", which also features a Dracula-esque femme fatale in the lead role. The film takes place in an unidentified city (presumably New York City) in the modern day, and follows the characters of Rufus King (Thomas Downey) and Jacob Van Helsing (Rhett Giles), both of whom have been observing recent attacks made upon young teenagers in the city at night. Van Helsing correctly identifies that the attacks are being made by a group of vampires residing in the city. The vampires are
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Dracula the Undead (video game)


Dracula - The Undead is a video game released in 1991 for the Atari Lynx handheld system. The game is loosely based on Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" and features Bram Stoker in the story as the narrator. The player takes on the role of Jonathan Harker as he tries to escape from Dracula's Castle. In the game you wake up with Dracula gone and you can explore the castle by moving from room to room. The game controls are a point and click, where you can interact with a certain number
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the Shroud" (1909) and "The Lair of the White Worm" (1911). He published his "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving" in 1906, after Irving's death, which proved successful, and managed productions at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Before writing "Dracula", Stoker met Ármin Vámbéry, a Hungarian writer and traveller. Dracula likely emerged from Vámbéry's dark stories of the Carpathian mountains. Stoker then spent several years researching European folklore and mythological stories of vampires. The 1972 book "In
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William Hughes (professor)


with Andrew Smith) and "Queering the Gothic" (also with Andrew Smith). He has also produced scholarly editions of Stoker's "The Lady of the Shroud" and "Dracula" with Diane Mason. He was the editor of "Gothic Studies", the refereed journal of the International Gothic Association, for the first twenty years of that publication's existence. His "Bram Stoker: Dracula: a reader's guide to essential criticism" was published by Palgrave on 21 November 2009 and "Bram Stoker: a
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Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest


. She gets waylaid by the Count at the train station where he abducts her to his home in Transylvania. Bram's friend Malcolm rushes to find Bram and tell him about the abduction but is caught and killed by Dracula at Stoker's apartment. He had told his business to Mrs. Withen the landlady, before he died so Bram was able to get the information he needed and rushed off to her rescue. He is accosted twice on the road to the Slovak region, once in France and the second time in Germany on
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973 film)


Dracula is a 1973 British television film adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula" written by Richard Matheson and directed by "Dark Shadows" creator Dan Curtis, with Jack Palance in the title role. It was the second collaboration for Curtis and Palance after the 1968 TV film "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". "Bistritz, Hungary May 1897": natives in Transylvania seem afraid when they learn solicitor Jonathan Harker is going to Castle Dracula. Jonathan finds the Count abrupt and impatient to get
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character had become associated with since Bela Lugosi's portrayal in 1931. The film was also a landmark in vampire horror as it is the only "Dracula" adaptation to win Oscars. The movie is seen as a game changer, which established a tone and style that redefined cinematic vampires. It created a host of new vampire film tropes, like retractable fangs, vampires turning into literal bat-men, and a steampunk aesthetic. "Bram Stoker's Dracula" is significant in the way that "The Exorcist" and "
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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary


public materials towards private ends, taking us along for a feverish theme-park ride." The film was also well-received as a "Dracula" adaptation. Matt Brunson wrote that "Not since Francis Coppola's sharp take on "Bram Stoker's Dracula" has there been a vampire flick as deliriously off the wall as Guy Maddin's" and Horror.com's Staci Layne wrote that "This is a fresh and surreally beautiful balletic interpretation of Bram Stoker's immortal novel, like nothing I've ever seen (and I
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Hamilton Deane


Hamilton Deane (1880–1958) was an Irish actor, playwright and director. He played a key role in popularising Bram Stoker's "Dracula" as a stage play and, later, a film. Deane was born in New Ross in County Wexford, Ireland, and grew up in Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin. His family lived close to the families of both Bram Stoker and Florence Balcombe (Stoker's wife), and his mother had been acquainted with Bram Stoker in her youth. Deane entered the theater as a
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Count Dracula (1970 film)


Count Dracula (German: "Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht", lit. "At night, when Dracula awakens") 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. It was based on the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. Although "Count Dracula" stars Christopher Lee in the title role, it is not a Hammer production like his other Dracula films, being produced instead by Harry
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Smith and Jones (Doctor Who)


electricity experiment involving lightning, a kite and a key. 'Mrs Finnigan', the Plasmavore, is found drinking Mr Stoker's blood. Mr Stoker was intended by Russell T Davies to be a reference to the character Mr Stoker from the 1989 series "Children's Ward", on which he was a producer. However, the design department saw this as a reference to Bram Stoker, author of "Dracula", so the sign 'B. Stoker' was placed on the office door during production. The "Royal
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Cult film


adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula". Stoker's widow sued the production company and drove it to bankruptcy. All known copies of the film were destroyed, and "Nosferatu" become an early cult film, kept alive by a cult following that circulated illegal bootlegs. Academic Chuck Kleinhans identifies the Marx Brothers as making other early cult films. On their original release, some highly regarded classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood were panned by critics and audiences, relegated to cult status. "The Night of the Hunter"
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Robert Eighteen-Bisang


has amassed the largest collection of vampiric literature in the world, which he houses at his personal residence. The collection includes about 2,500 books, 2,000 comic books, 1,000 magazines and over 100 films, including a first edition of Bram Stoker's "Dracula". Eighteen-Bisang is credited as proving that the novel Dracula is based on the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper. He has also discounted that Bram Stoker based his iconic character Dracula on Vlad the Impaler, as many people believe. Eighteen-Bisang is a member
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led by a foreign seductress named Countess Bathorly (Christina Rosenberg), who hopes to use the humans to feed her growing vampire clan and to eventually seize control of the city, while at the same time using her growing power to gain the powers of "the Master". Discovering Bathorly's plan, Van Helsing and King begin to hunt down and destroy the vampires one by one, until they finally face the Countess herself and try to kill her once and for all, before her evil consumes the city and allows Dracula
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Castle Dracula


Essential Dracula", Clare Haword-Maden opined the castle of Count Dracula was inspired by Slains Castle, at which Bram Stoker was a guest of the 19th Earl of Erroll. According to Miller, he first visited Cruden Bay in 1893, three years after work on "Dracula" had begun. Haining and Tremaine maintain that during this visit, Stoker was especially impressed by Slains Castle's interior and the surrounding landscape. Miller and Leatherdale question the stringency of this connection. Possibly, Stoker was not inspired by a real edifice
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Casabianca (poem)


(1984), Kamau Brathwaite alludes to the poem as an example of imperial education and hopes those who have had to recite its lines will be able to express themselves in 'nation language' (Caribbean patois) instead of 'imposed' language and poetry. The story is referenced in Bram Stoker's "Dracula". In chapter VII, in a newspaper account of the great storm, the dead pilot of the ship Demeter is compared to "the young Casabianca." (Stoker, Bram. "Dracula."
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The Tomb of Dracula


title role in the miniseries "Dracula: Lord of the Undead". Two more four-issue miniseries followed. "Stoker's Dracula" continued and concluded the adaptation of the original Bram Stoker novel "Dracula" by writer Roy Thomas and artist Dick Giordano, which had begun in "Dracula Lives" 30 years prior. Another "Tomb of Dracula" miniseries followed found Blade joined a new team of vampire hunters to prevent Dracula achieving godhood. "Apocalypse vs. Dracula" featured Dracula battling Apocalypse, an immortal foe of the
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becoming the 15th-highest-grossing film of the year. Outside North America, the film grossed another $133,339,902 for a total worldwide gross of $215,862,692, making it the 9th-highest-grossing film of the year worldwide. In 1993, the film was released on VHS and LaserDisc. The VHS release was a special box set in the shape of a coffin. It contained the film on VHS, which included a behind-the-scenes documentary, and the original "Dracula" novel by Bram Stoker in
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London in film


the Ripper" (1958), "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde" (1971), "Hands of the Ripper" (1971), "From Hell" (2001) and several versions of "The Lodger", including Hitchcock's silent film of 1926. Much of the action in the Bram Stoker novel "Dracula" takes place in London, although several film adaptations have set it elsewhere. One notable exception is "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Other films
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Elizabeth Miller (academic)


Sense & Nonsense", a volume on Dracula for the "Dictionary of Literary Biography" and, most recently, "Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition" with Robert Eighteen-Bisang. She founded the Dracula Research Centre (now offline) and was the founding editor of the "Journal of Dracula Studies" now at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Miller lectured regularly at venues including universities, academic conferences, ballet productions of Dracula and private functions. A participant in several TV documentaries including "Summer of the
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Dracula's Guest


Dracula's Guest is a short story by Bram Stoker and published in the short story collection "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories". It is widely believed that "Dracula's Guest" is actually the deleted first chapter from the original "Dracula" manuscript, which the publisher felt was superfluous to the story. In the preface to the original edition of "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories", Stoker's widow Florence wrote, "To his original list of stories in this book, I have added an
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Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon


further elaborated ""Shadow of the Dragon" follows on from previous game, but it is not a sequel. It really is an original story that is more based on the legends that have inspired Bram Stoker than Bram Stoker's book itself." Speaking of the music, composer Pierre Estève stated "the players know that Dracula is around, that he is never very far away. Consequently, I chose to compose a theme with saturated electric guitars that create a shady, dark atmosphere that keeps the players in suspense.
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tried to get some kind of matinée idol for the part of Jonathan, because it isn't such a great part. If we all were to go to the airport... Keanu is the one that the girls would just besiege." On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 72% based on 53 critics with an average rating of 6.5/10. The site's consensus reads, "Overblown in the best sense of the word, Francis Ford Coppola's vision of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" rescues the character
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David J. Skal


" (2008). Skal also co-edited the 1997 Norton Critical Edition of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and compiled the 2001 anthology "Vampires: Encounters with the Undead". His biography of Bram Stoker, "Something in the Blood", was published in October 2016. Skal has made several appearances in television specials, such as "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments" and "The Perfect Scary Movie". He has produced DVD supplemental documentaries and/or audio commentaries for a number of films, including "Dracula"
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Klaus T. Steindl


Conspiracy and Lost City of Gladiators - Carnuntum. For his film Vampire Princess he discovered the historical inspiration for Bram Stoker's legendary Dracula character: ""Picture a spectacular vampire attack at the tomb of an Austrian princess. A scene from Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series? No. It's the deleted opening to Bram Stoker's "Dracula," a horror classic that many experts believe was actually based on a woman. Archaeologists, historians, and forensic scientists revisit the days of vampire hysteria in the eighteenth-century
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Bram Stoker Award


The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing. The Awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA. They are named after Irish horror writer Bram Stoker, author of the novel "Dracula", among others. Several members of the HWA—including Dean Koontz—were reluctant to endorse such writing awards, fearing it would incite competitiveness rather than friendly
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Dacre Stoker


Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Because of the Stokers' frustrating history with "Dracula's" copyright, Dacre, with encouragement from screenwriter Ian Holt, decided to write "a sequel that bore the Stoker name" to "reestablish creative control over" the original novel. In 2009, "Dracula: The Un-Dead" was released, written by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Both writers claim to have "based [their work] on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from
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their own research for the sequel. This also marked Dacre Stoker's writing debut. In Spring 2012, Dacre Stoker (in collaboration with Prof. Elizabeth Miller) presented the "lost" Dublin Journal written by Bram Stoker, which had been kept by his great-grandson Noel Dobbs. Stoker's diary entries shed a light on the issues that concerned him before his London years. A remark about a boy who caught flies in a bottle might be a clue for the later development of the Renfield character in "Dracula".
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Dracula (1924 play)


Dracula is a stage play written by Hamilton Deane in 1924, then revised by John L. Balderston in 1927. It was the first authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula". After touring in England, the original version of the play appeared at London's Little Theatre in July 1927, where it was seen by the American producer Horace Liveright. Liveright asked Balderston to revise the play for a Broadway production that opened at the Fulton Theatre in October 1927. This production starred Bela Lugosi in his first major English-
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Dracula in popular culture


Dracula the Undead" is an unofficial sequel to "Dracula". Will Hill's "Department 19" is about Jamie Carpenter, a descendant of Henry Carpenter, Van Helsing's valet who saves Van Helsing's life multiple times. Department 19 (or Blacklight), is an organization started by the people from the original "Dracula", and they fight vampires across the world. Dacre Stoker, who is a great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, co-wrote with screenwriter Ian Holt a sequel to "Dracula" titled
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Bram Stoker


Search of Dracula" by Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally claimed that the Count in Stoker's novel was based on Vlad III Dracula. At most however, Stoker borrowed only the name and "scraps of miscellaneous information" about Romanian history, according to one expert, Elizabeth Miller; further, there are no comments about Vlad III in the author's working notes. "Dracula" is an epistolary novel, written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings
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Vampire


. In his documentary "Vampire Princess" (2007) the investigative Austrian author and director Klaus T. Steindl discovered 2007 the historical inspiration for Bram Stoker's legendary Dracula character (see also Literature - Bram Stoker: Dracula's Guest): ""Many experts believe, the deleted opening was actually based on a woman. Archaeologists, historians, and forensic scientists revisit the days of vampire hysteria in the eighteenth-century Czech Republic and re-open the unholy grave of dark princess Eleonore von Schwarzenberg. They uncover her story,
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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing


The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is an action role-playing video game developed and published by NeocoreGames. Based on the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker, the game focuses on the trials of young Van Helsing, son of the legendary vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing from the book. The game is set in a gothic-noir 19th-century Eastern Europe and contains "intentionally anachronistic humor and gadgetry". The game is based on Bram Stoker's tale of Count Dracula, similar to how the developer's earlier role
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Gary Oldman


Oswald in the script. Stone gave him several plane tickets, a list of contacts and told him to do his own research. Oldman met with Oswald's wife, Marina, and her two daughters to prepare for the role. The following year, he starred as Count Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's romance-horror "Bram Stoker's Dracula". A commercially successful film adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, it was a box office success worldwide. Oldman's performance was recognised as the best male performance of 1992
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Count Dracula


Count Dracula () is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel "Dracula". He is considered to be both the prototypical and the archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction. He is also depicted in the novel to be the origin of werewolf legends. Some aspects of the character are believed to have been inspired by the 15th-century Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler, who was also known as Dracula, and Sir Henry Irving, an actor for whom Stoker was a personal assistant. One of Dracula
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Lady Athlyne


Lady Athlyne is a romance novel by Bram Stoker, written in 1908. It was published one year before the release of Stoker's "The Lady of the Shroud". Abraham (Bram) Stoker was born in Clontarf, Ireland near Dublin on 8 November 1847. Due to a childhood illness (which was never identified) that kept Stoker bedridden until about the age of seven, it is speculated that this might have been where he received some of the ideas for his stories like Dracula. Vampires, fairies, or stories
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Dracula: Origin


Dracula: Origin is a point-and-click adventure game for the PC based on the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. Released by Frogwares in 2008, it follows the company's catalogue of adventure games such as the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. The game follows Professor Abraham Van Helsing as the protagonist through a unique take on the origin of Dracula. His adventures span several locations, such as London, Egypt, Austria and Transylvania, through puzzles and logic problems, individually interacting with over 40 characters. The
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LGBT themes in horror fiction


Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897) as the title character warns off the female vampires and claims Jonathan Harker, saying "This man belongs to me!" Richard S. Primuth of "The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide" writes that Stoker, a closeted gay man and close friend of Oscar Wilde, began writing "Dracula" just as Wilde was sentenced to hard labor after his conviction for sodomy. Talia Schaffer writes in "ELH" that ""Dracula" explores Stoker's fear and anxiety as a closeted homosexual
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Dracula


the wolf merely keeps him warm and protects him until help arrives. When the Englishman is finally taken back to his hotel, a telegram awaits him from his expectant host Dracula, with a warning about "dangers from snow and wolves and night". In 2009, an official sequel was published, written by Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker will write a prequel to "Dracula" titled "Dracul". An interpretation of the missing 101 pages of the
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James Moran (writer)


's new webseries "Mina Murray's Journal", a modern vlog adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, will launch on YouTube. Moran is an atheist, and his wife is Cat Davies, a writer-director. Moran and Davies married in 2017. In 2016 they formed Moranic Productions, a production company with a slate of shorts, features, and webseries. He also lectures on screenwriting at Met Film School. Moran has a personal blog called "The Pen Is Mightier Than The Spork". Moran started writing
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Gareth Wigan


to studio head. Film credits include "Star Wars", "Alien", "The Turning Point", "Chariots of Fire", "The Right Stuff", "Bram Stoker’s Dracula", "Kick-Ass" and others. He held numerous positions including Production Executive at 20th Century Fox, co-Vice Chairman at Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, a co-founder at The Ladd Company, production consultant at Columbia and more. Gareth Wigan died at his Los Angeles home on February 13,
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Eleonore von Schwarzenberg


Her apparent reburial conforms to vampire burial rites of the time, and a stone slab was placed over her coffin as if to prevent her from rising. Furthermore the documentary discovered that Eleonore von Schwarzenberg was the historical inspiration for Bram Stoker's legendary Dracula character (see also Literature - Bram Stoker: Dracula´s Guest): ""Many experts believe, the deleted opening was actually based on a woman. Archaeologists, historians, and forensic scientists revisit the days of vampire hysteria in the eighteenth-century Czech Republic and re-open
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (handheld video game)


Bram Stoker's Dracula for the Game Boy is a 1993 video game that bears a closer resemblance to platform games such as "Super Mario Land" than horror films. It was voted to be the 21st worst video game of all time according to "FLUX" magazine though it was also voted best-underrated gem game by 6y magazine. While based on the 1992 film of the same name, the game had very little to do with the actual movie. Several weapons can be used; ranging from the basic knife to
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Castle Dracula


Castle Dracula is the fictitious Transylvanian residence of Count Dracula, the vampire antagonist in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel "Dracula". In Stoker's narrative, Castle Dracula is the single most important location. The first and the last part of the plot take place here. The inaccessible stronghold, which initially symbolises the vampire's power, finally becomes the scene of his extermination. In the novel's first chapters, the young English solicitor Jonathan Harker, travelling from London via Paris, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Klausenburg and
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Amy Lyndon


University. Lyndon’s works in film include "The UnMiracle" with Stephen Baldwin and the Lionsgate feature films "Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest" and "". Lyndon also starred in Chris Pratt's first film "Cursed Part 3", written and directed by Rae Dawn Chong. She has appeared in many television shows including "Days Of Our Lives", "The Bold and the Beautiful", "The Young and The Restless" and a recurring guest lead in "Freddy's Nightmares". Additionally, Lyndon
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his membership. The short story collection "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories" was published in 1914 by Stoker's widow, Florence Stoker, who was also his literary executrix. The first film adaptation of "Dracula" was F. W. Murnau's "Nosferatu", released in 1922, with Max Schreck starring as Count Orlok. Florence Stoker eventually sued the filmmakers, and was represented by the attorneys of the British Incorporated Society of Authors. Her chief legal complaint was that she had neither been asked for permission for the
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The Historian


such as Wilkie Collins; his novel "The Moonstone" (1868), with its plot twists and bevy of narrators, was "a major model". The primary literary ancestor of "The Historian", however, is Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897). For example, in "The Historian" and "Dracula", the protagonist is both fascinated and repulsed by Dracula. Both are told through a series of letters and memoirs. "The Historian" also includes many intertextual references to Stoker's
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Dracula: the Musical


Dracula: the Musical is a Swedish musical based on the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker produced in 2010. It was originally a theatre production meant for ten performances but due to the massive popularity extra performances were added and the musical was turned into a film, given a limited release on DVD. The film was put together by editing several performances of the musical and a filming session for closeups. The musical was written by Lisa Linder and directed by . Music was composed by Christer Johansson and Jacob Mülrad. The musical
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The Fury of Dracula


a choice of waiting for a suitable production gap to appear, or converting the game to fit into the "Warhammer" Fantasy World. Games Workshop ultimately produced "The Fury of Dracula" and released it in the autumn of 1987. Anthony J. Gallela comments: "Based on Bram Stoker's famous novel, "The Fury of Dracula" is a breakthrough title that introduced cooperative and deductive elements to the adventure board game subgenre, while managing to retain the feeling of breathless excitement that players seek in an adventure game."
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Dracula (1931 English-language film)


in his coffin during daylight, and the sun is rising. Van Helsing prepares a wooden stake while Harker searches for Mina. Van Helsing impales Dracula through the heart, killing him, and Mina returns to normal. The following appear in uncredited roles: Bram Stoker's novel had already been filmed without permission as "Nosferatu" in 1922 by German expressionist film maker F. W. Murnau. Bram Stoker's widow sued for plagiarism and copyright infringement, and the courts decided in her favor, essentially ordering that all prints of "Nosferatu
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Dracula the Undead (novel)


Dracula the Undead is a sequel written to Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula", written by Freda Warrington. The book was commissioned by Penguin Books as a sequel to Stoker's original novel for the centenary of the latter's first publication. It takes place seven years after the original. It was originally published in 1997, and was brought back to print in 2009. It is seven years since a stake was driven through the heart of the infamous Count Dracula. Seven years which have not eradicated the terrible memories for
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fiction, but it does contain some historical references; although it is a matter of conjecture and debate as to how much historical connection was deliberate on Stoker's part. Attention was drawn to the supposed connections between the historical Transylvanian-born Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Tepes) of Wallachia and Bram Stoker's fictional Dracula, following the publication of "In Search of Dracula" by Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally in 1972. During his main reign (1456–1462), "Vlad the Impaler" is said to have
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Dracula


in a different region. In her book "The Essential Dracula", Clare Haword-Maden suggested that the castle of Count Dracula was inspired by Slains Castle, at which Bram Stoker was a guest of the 19th Earl of Erroll. According to Miller, he first visited Cruden Bay in 1893, three years after work had begun on "Dracula". Haining and Tremaine maintain that, during this visit, Stoker was especially impressed by Slains Castle's interior and the surrounding landscape. Miller and Leatherdale question the stringency of this
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Lucy Westenra


production "Dracula - Entre l'amour et la mort". In 2011, Anaïs Delva played the role of Lucy Westenra in the French musical "Dracula – L'amour plus fort que la mort". Lucy appears in Marvel Comics adaptation of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" # 2-3. Lucy is portrayed as in the novel as a dark haired nineteen-year-old beauty who is killed along with her mother by Count Dracula in 1890 after Abraham Van Helsing tries to save her life. Topps Comics also did a comics
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Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)


Buffy", a cross is a weapon, but beyond that is an empty symbol. Christian symbols and rituals traditionally play an integral role in many vampire stories, as in Bram Stoker's "Dracula". Conversely, "Buffy" downplays their importance. The Master sends minions to kill Buffy in "Angel", an episode featuring the origin story of Buffy's romantic interest, a vampire with a murderous past who was re-ensouled by a Gypsy tribe as the ultimate punishment; this "curse" has caused him
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Dracula (Czech musical)


Dracula is a Czech musical created by Karel Svoboda, Zdeněk Borovec and Richard Hes. Its world premiere was in Prague on 13 October 1995 at the Prague Congress Center (formerly the Palace of Culture), with Daniel Hůlka in the title role. It was immediately called the Czech musical of the century. The musical is very loosely based on Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula. The musical was performed very successfully between 1995 and 1998, and then again from 2003. The musical was performed in a new production at the
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M. C. Gardner


influence of Whitman's sex poems (Children of Adam & Calamus) on the imagination of Bram Stoker in his creation of his signature character, Count Dracula. Stoker revered the poet upon reading William Michael Rossetti's 1868 presentation of his poems. He corresponded with him in the 1870s and thrice visited Whitman in the 1880s. The Stoker/Whitman Locus is suggested in a close examination of Whitman's celebrated paeans to death with numerous passages from Stoker's 1897 novel, "Dracula". "Whitman and Gardner's Witness to War
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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". During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving, and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876) from Dublin and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley
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Bram Stoker


. Stoker visited the English coastal town of Whitby in 1890, and that visit was said to be part of the inspiration for "Dracula". He began writing novels while working as manager for Henry Irving and secretary and director of London's Lyceum Theatre, beginning with "The Snake's Pass" in 1890 and "Dracula" in 1897. During this period, Stoker was part of the literary staff of "The Daily Telegraph" in London, and he wrote other fiction, including the horror novels "The Lady of
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The Snake's Pass


The Snake's Pass is an 1890 novel by Bram Stoker. It centers on the legend of Saint Patrick defeating the King of the Snakes in Ireland. The novel also centers on the troubled romance between the main character and a local peasant girl. "The Snake's Pass" was Bram Stoker's second imperial fiction novel, and was first published in the United Kingdom in 1890. The novel is a precursor to Stoker's "Dracula" but was his only novel written in his native land of Ireland. A year before
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Nicolas Dromard


Canada production of "Dracula", a musical version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. It featured a book by Richard Ouzounian and music by Marek Norman. In early 2003, Nicolas Dromard played the role of Tulsa in the Stephen Sondheim musical "Gypsy" at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. 2011: BroadwayWorld Boston Award: Best Actor in a Touring Production ("Mary Poppins") 2012: IRNE Award (Independent Reviewers of New England) Nomination: Best Visiting Performer ("Mary Poppins") 2012: BWW Critics Choice Awards
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Drakula İstanbul'da


Drakula İstanbul'da ("Dracula in Istanbul") is a Turkish 1953 film version of Bram Stoker's original novel "Dracula". The screenplay was based on a 1928 novel by Ali Riza Seyfi called "Kazıklı Voyvoda" ("Impaler Voivode"), and is more or less a translation of Stoker's novel, but there is no Renfield character and Güzin, the "Mina Harker" character, is a showgirl given to performing in revealing outfits. Drakula/Dracula is played by balding Atif Kaptan. Both the novel
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Rabbit Hole Ensemble


story. The focus of Rabbit Hole's four successive works based on Bram Stoker’s novel, "Dracula", and F.W. Murnau’s silent film, "Nosferatu," was a consideration of storytelling. In these productions, the company created and developed storytelling techniques that utilized the ensemble as a composer of atmosphere. Actor-produced lighting and sound created the impression of such settings as ships’ holds and forests (without the use of set pieces), and the characterization of non-human entities such as horses to fog
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Hammer Film Productions


himself by adding lines of dialogue from the original novel. Lee speaks at least one line taken from Bram Stoker in every Dracula film he appeared in, except for "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" in which the Count does not talk at all (Lee claimed repeatedly he was appalled by his dialogue in that film and refused to speak it, but Jimmy Sangster rebutted that no dialogue was written for the character). He was also concerned about typecasting, and after filming "The Satanic Rites of Dracula" he finally quit
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Dracula's Death


the film's plot did not at all follow the narrative of Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula". Thus is "Nosferatu" (1922) considered the first adaptation of Stoker's novel. After originally opening in Vienna in 1921 and enjoying a long and successful European run, the film was later re-edited and re-released in Budapest in 1923 as "The Death of Dracula". Director Lajthay was both an actor and a director. Most of the films he worked on are considered lost. A woman experiences
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Dracula: Resurrection


they built from Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula", the game's creators billed their project as "an interactive sequel" to the book, rather than a literal adaptation. Nevertheless, they sought to imbue it with an atmosphere of dread like that of its source material. "Génération 4" reported that Simian was "[p]assionate about Stoker's novel and the story of Vlad Tepes"; the designer claimed to have read the original "Dracula" several dozen times. To create the game's plot, the team
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J. D. Barker


went on to hit some major milestones - #2 on Audible (Harper Lee with Go Set a Watchman held #1), #44 on Amazon U.S., #2 on Amazon Canada, and #22 on Amazon UK. Forsaken was also nominated for a Bram Stoker Award (Best Debut Novel) and won a handful of others including a New Apple Medalist Award. After reading Forsaken, Bram Stoker’s family reached out to Barker and asked him to co-author a prequel to Dracula utilizing Bram’s original notes and
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Steven Moffat


. Moffat's last "Doctor Who" episode, "Twice Upon a Time", finished production in July 2017 and aired at Christmas. Moffat co-created "Dracula", based on Bram Stoker's novel. "Dracula" was commissioned by BBC One and Netflix in 2018 and began production in March 2019. Moffat was born in Paisley, Scotland, where he attended Camphill High School. He studied at the University of Glasgow, where he was involved with the student television station Glasgow University Student Television. After gaining
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University Philosophical Society


the club and society at large. Each presented papers on the history of Bram Stoker and legacy of Dracula within their family. Also in attendance was distant relative and Senator David Norris. Finally the Stoker family presented the club with portrait of Bram Stoker by Dublin artist Damian Byrne, and a plaque specifying the connection between the society and their ancestor. The society endeavors each year to enable its membership to engage in competitive debating both externally and internally to the college. This includes holding workshops, regular weekly competitive debates, as well
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Kukri


. The kukri came to be known to the Western world when the East India Company came into conflict with the growing Gorkha Kingdom, culminating in the Gurkha War of 1814–1816. It gained literary attention in the 1897 novel "Dracula" by Irish author Bram Stoker. Despite the popular image of Dracula having a stake driven through his heart at the conclusion of a climactic battle between Dracula's bodyguards and the heroes, Mina's narrative describes his throat being sliced through by Jonathan Harker's kukri and his heart pierced by Quincey Morris's
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American Zoetrope


American Zoetrope (also known as Zoetrope Studios from 1979 until 1990) is a privately run American film production company, centered in San Francisco, California and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Opened on December 12, 1969, the studio has produced not only the films of Coppola (including "Apocalypse Now", "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Tetro"), but also George Lucas's pre-"Star Wars" films ("THX 1138", "American Graffiti"), as well as many others
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Wallachia


which interfered with their stranglehold on the trade routes. In retaliation, the Saxons distributed grotesque poems of cruelty and other propaganda, demonizing Vlad III Dracula as a drinker of blood. These tales strongly influenced an eruption of vampiric fiction throughout the West and, in particular, Germany. As well the main character in the 1897 Gothic novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker could be modelled on Vlad III Dracula. According to Elizabeth Miller Stoker borrowed only the name and "scraps of miscellaneous information" about Romanian history; as well,
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Dracula


original novel, it was pieced together from Bram Stoker's editorial notes, artifacts, and journals. The story of "Dracula" has been the basis for numerous films and plays. Stoker himself wrote the first theatrical adaptation, which was presented at the Lyceum Theatre on 18 May 1897 under the title "Dracula, or The Undead" shortly before the novel's publication and performed only once, in order to establish his own copyright for such adaptations. This adaption was first published only a century later in October 1997. The
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Count Dracula (1977 film)


biggest downfall" and that it was "perhaps the least visually interesting" "Dracula" adaptation, though he offered a mostly positive review, remarking that there is "plenty to admire in the production", in particular the "sublime acting". MaryAnn Johanson of FlickFilosopher.com was less positive, writing: "Maybe it had more of an impact in the 70s ... but today, while it remains a stylishly surreal reinterpretation of Bram Stoker’s novel, there’s something a bit dated and stodgy about it". "Count
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The Mystery of the Sea


equally well applied to "Dracula"), it has been significantly overshadowed in scholarship and criticism by "Dracula". Bram Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland. He was brought up in a Protestant middle-class household, and was a sickly child. However, Stoker eventually grew out of his illnesses and attended Trinity College, where he studied science and mathematics. Stoker became a civil service clerk in Dublin for a short time, but was always interested in literature. He wrote short fiction
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Corvin Castle


was held prisoner by John Hunyadi, Hungary's military leader and regent during the King's minority. Later, Vlad III entered a political alliance with John Hunyadi, although the latter was responsible for the execution of his father, Vlad II Dracul. Because of these links, the Hunedoara Castle is sometimes mentioned as a source of inspiration for Castle Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel "Dracula". In fact, Stoker neither knew about Vlad's alliance with Hunyadi, nor about Hunyadi's castle. Instead, Stoker's
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adaptation nor paid any royalty. The case dragged on for some years, with Mrs. Stoker demanding the destruction of the negative and all prints of the film. The suit was finally resolved in the widow's favour in July 1925. A single print of the film survived, however, and it has become well known. The first authorised film version of "Dracula" did not come about until almost a decade later when Universal Studios released Tod Browning's "Dracula" starring Bela Lugosi. Canadian writer Dacre Stoker, a great
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Poenari Castle


caused further damage, it was slightly repaired and the walls and its towers still stand today. During the Communist era in Romania, foreign visitors sometimes spent the night inside the ruined structure. Since 2009, the site has been administered by the Argeș County Museum. Claims that the Poenari Castle would be the "real" Castle Dracula as featured in Bram Stoker's famous "Dracula" novel have no basis in Stoker's book. There is no proof that Stoker knew of Poenari Castle and the castle is situated roughly 200 km
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Dracula


when Universal Studios purchased the rights, it came to light that Bram Stoker had not complied with a portion of US copyright law, placing the novel into the public domain. In the United Kingdom and other countries following the Berne Convention on copyrights, the novel was under copyright until April 1962, fifty years after Stoker's death. "Dracula" was not an immediate bestseller when it was first published, although reviewers were unstinting in their praise. The contemporary "Daily Mail" ranked Stoker's powers above those of Mary Shelley
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