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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 ).
* Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ) uses not only letters and diaries, but also dictation cylinders and newspaper accounts.
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 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.
* 1897 – Dracula, 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 several
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban won several awards, including the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for best work for young readers, the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year for children's books.
Commonly known as " Dracula's Castle " ( although it is one among several locations linked to the Dracula legend, including Poenari Castle and Hunyad Castle ), it is marketed as the home of the titular character in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
After several years, the company ran out of money and laid off most of its employees ; Bram Cohen went on to create BitTorrent and Zooko Wilcox-O ' Hearn created Mnet out of MojoNation's source code and contributed later to the Tahoe-LAFS.
His fiction has been nominated for several awards, including several Bram Stoker Awards, while he has also been recognised for his editorial work with a Bram Stoker Award, as well as World Fantasy Award and Hugo Award nominations.
* William Hughes ( professor ), British professor of Gothic studies, and author / editor of several books on Bram Stoker and the Gothic
* Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series, with Ellen Datlow, 1986-2003 ( 3 World Fantasy Awards ; the Bram Stoker Award ; several other award nominations )
Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula recreates several scenes from Black Sunday nearly exactly as they were filmed, in homage to Bava's film.

Bram and characters
Historical characters such as Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Alva Vanderbilt and Consuelo Vanderbilt, and journalist Nellie Bly, among others, also make appearances.
After some discussion, it was decided to use the Dracula character, in large part because it was the most famous vampire to the general public, and also because Bram Stoker's creation and secondary characters were by that time in the public domain.
Epistolary novels, which were very common in the early years of the novel, generally consist of a series of letters written by different characters, and necessarily switching when the writer changes ; the classic books Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Dracula by Abraham " Bram " Stoker and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde take this approach.
Abraham Van Helsing was also portrayed in the The Tomb of Dracula Marvel Comics series, which was based on the characters of Bram Stoker's novel.
Love at First Bite is a 1979 comedy horror film directed by Stan Dragoti and written by Robert Kaufman, using characters originally created by Bram Stoker.
The Brides of Dracula are characters in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

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