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Bram and Stoker's
Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. Illustration from The Dark Blue by D. H. Friston, 1872
He is known for his roles as Westley in the cult classic The Princess Bride, Arthur Holmwood in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and for his role as Dr. Lawrence Gordon in Saw.
Elwes also appeared in such films as Francis Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Crush, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Twister, Liar Liar, Cradle Will Rock, The Cat's Meow and Kiss the Girls.
There are three types of epistolary novels: monologic ( giving the letters of only one character, like Letters of a Portuguese Nun ), dialogic ( giving the letters of two characters, like Mme Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Letters of Fanni Butlerd ( 1757 ), and polylogic ( with three or more letter-writing characters, such as in Bram Stoker's Dracula ).
In 1992, Coppola directed and produced Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Adapted from Bram Stoker's novel, it was intended to be more faithful to the book than previous film adaptations.
* Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is told in the form of numerous documents, including journals and newspaper articles.
: Bram Stoker's Dracula
Le Fanu's short story collection In a Glass Darkly ( 1872 ) includes the superlative vampire tale Carmilla, which provided fresh blood for that particular strand of the Gothic and influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).
The first vampire-themed movie was made during this time: F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu ( 1922 ), an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).
* In Bram Stoker's Dracula, several characters make phrenological observations in describing other characters, as does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
In the English-speaking world, Vlad is best known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula ; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law.
This marked the first in a series of collaborations between Waits and Coppola, with Waits appearing in cameos in Coppola's movies The Outsiders ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), and The Cotton Club ( 1984 ), and a major role in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
1992 also saw Waits featuring in Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula, as the possessed lunatic Renfield.
Transylvania is often associated with vampires ( chiefly due to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and its film adaptations ) and the horror genre in general, while the region is also known for the scenic beauty of its Carpathian landscape and its rich history.
However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula that is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and which provided the basis of modern vampire fiction.
However, it is also a playful take on an old archetype, the vampire ( the reader is even treated to Neville ’ s reading and put-down of Bram Stoker's Dracula ).
Of course, the difference lies in order of power — while many D & D adventures focus on allowing a band of heroes to prevail over a Dark Lord ( much as in the spirit of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula ), no such victory over the Dark Powers is conceivable.
This is the case in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Poncy bugger owes me £ 11, for one thing ," because Dracula tossed Spike's signed copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula in a fire in 1898.
Later influential works include the penny dreadful Varney the Vampire ( 1847 ); Sheridan Le Fanu's tale of a lesbian vampire, Carmilla ( 1872 ) and the masterpiece of the genre: Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).
One of its lines Denn die Toten reiten schnell (" For the dead ride fast ") was to be quoted in Bram Stoker's classic Dracula.

Bram and Dracula
Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker.
In the late 19th century, Bram Stoker released one of the most widely recognized and successful novels in the epistolary form to date, Dracula.
The most famous Gothic villain ever, Count Dracula was created by Bram Stoker in his novel Dracula ( 1897 ).
The Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror novel Dracula.
* 1897Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
King acknowledges the influence of Bram Stoker, particularly on his novel Salem's Lot, which he envisioned as a retelling of Dracula.
This story was to greatly influence Bram Stoker in the writing of Dracula.

Bram and 1897
Bram Stoker considered using the title The Un-Dead for his novel Dracula ( 1897 ), and use of the term in the novel is mostly responsible for the modern sense of the word.
Varney was a major influence on later vampire fiction, particularly Dracula ( 1897 ) by Bram Stoker.
* Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897.
Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ) has been the definitive description of the vampire in popular fiction for the last century.
* Dracula by Bram Stoker ( 1897 ).
* Dracula ( 1897 ) by Bram Stoker: whilst Dracula escapes from England to Varna by sea, the cabal sworn to destroy him travels to Paris and takes the Orient Express, arriving in Varna ahead of him.
In 1921, German director Frederich Wilhelm Murnau ( John Malkovich ) takes his Berlin-based cast and crew on-location in Czechoslovakia in order to shoot Nosferatu, an unauthorized version of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
Irving is thought to have been the inspiration for the title character in Lyceum manager Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
* Bram Stoker's-Dracula ( 1897 ) comes to London in order to seduce Mina Harker.
* Count Dracula, aka Vlad Dracula, from Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula
In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, the eponymous Dracula disembarks ship at Whitby and takes the form of a big and ferocious dark dog.
Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character from Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.
R. M. Renfield is a fictional character and the secondary antagonist of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.
The name of the vampire Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula was inspired by Vlad's patronymic.
It is possible that Bram Stoker took inspiration from this for his 1897 novel Dracula.
In 1897 Bram Stoker published Dracula.
Wilhelmina " Mina " Harker ( née Murray ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.

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