Motion picture adapted in 1931 from the 1897 novel by Bram Stoker and the 1920's play by Hamilton Deane and John Balderston. Together with Frankenstein it launched the vogue for horror films.
It's main character, brilliantly played by Bela Lugosi , became a figure in popular mythology as human vampire.
Count Dracula is a cultivated Romanian nobleman, impeccably dressed in white tie, tails and a black cape. His hair is black, his skin alabaster. He welcome his intended victims to his castle in Transylvania, where he feasts upon their blood.
Other famous Vampires in Literature:
DRACULA
(1897)
BRAM STOKER
SALEM'S LOT
(1971)
STEPHEN KING
INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE
(1976)
ANNE RICE
THE SPACE VAMPIRES
(1976)
BRIAN LUMLEY
THE KEEP
(1981)
F. PAUL WILSON
THE HUNGER
(1981)
WHITLEY STREIBER
VAMPIRE JUNCTION
(1984)
S.P. SOMTOW
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT
(1985)
ANNE RICE
THEY THIRST
(1988)
ROBERT MCCAMMON
THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED
(1988)
ANNE RICE
CARRION COMFORT
(1989)
DAN SIMMONS
THE TALE OF THE BODY THIEF
(1992)
ANNE RICE
MEMNOCH THE DEVIL
(1995)
ANNE RICE
VIRTUOUS VAMPIRES
(1996)
ASSORTED AUTHORS
MANSIONS OF DARKNESS
(1996)
CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO