Nearly 80 years before Bram Stoker introduced the world to Count Dracula, a strikingly similar figure debuted in a pioneering 1819 short story: William Polidori’s The Vampyre. His name was Lord ...
Sighisoara, Romania — A scream echoes through the old house on the hill in Transylvania. A man in a black cape flies down the stairs. Outside a storm threatens. But even in Dracula’s hometown, evil is ...
Dracula is what you might call a bona fide cinematic icon. From Bela Lugosi’s official celluloid origination of Bram Stoker's vampire in 1931 to Christopher Lee's outings as Dracula in the Hammer ...