The final script, by Anthony Hinds makes no reference to Dracula, and expands further on the directions taken in Brides by portraying vampirism as a social disease afflicting those who choose a decadent lifestyle.

Frankenstein draws heavily on a forged document feel, as do Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and many of the works of Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe and H. G.

Often starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and drawing on Universal's precedent, these films include The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1957 ), and Dracula ( 1958 ), both followed by many sequels, with director Terence Fisher being responsible for many of the best films.

* The most recent issue of the webcomic Dr. McNinja features Dracula revealing that he discovered the cure for cancer and hid it on Mars.

At Universal, Siodmak made yet another B-film, Son of Dracula ( 1943 ), the third in a trilogy of Dracula movies ( based on his brother Curt's original story ).

King acknowledges the influence of Bram Stoker, particularly on his novel Salem's Lot, which he envisioned as a retelling of Dracula.

Dracula drew on earlier mythologies of werewolves and similar legendary demons and " was to voice the anxieties of an age ", and the " fears of late Victorian patriarchy ".

Varney was a major influence on later vampire fiction, particularly Dracula ( 1897 ) by Bram Stoker.

The 1897 novel Dracula drew on earlier mythologies of werewolves and similar legendary demons and " was to voice the anxieties of an age ", and the " fears of late Victorian patriarchy ".

All the same, the story could have been an admirable minor work in the tradition of Dracula, if only the author, or somebody, had not insisted on encumbering it with the year's most childish set of " scientific " rationalizations.

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.

Even a leading role in a Mel Brooks comic horror parody, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, failed to generate much box office excitement, although it did gain somewhat of a following on its later release to video.

When Chick and Wilbur get to McDougal's " House Of Horrors ", they open the first crate and find a coffin with " Dracula " inscribed on the front.

He had previously portrayed vampires in Mark of the Vampire ( 1935 ), The Return of the Vampire ( 1944 ) and Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire ( 1952 ), and made a gag cameo as Dracula in a 1933 Hollywood on Parade short, but this was the only time he again played Dracula as a sustained role on film.

In the aftermath of the events of the novel Dracula, a now disgraced and divorced Mina Harker ( née Murray ) is recruited by Campion Bond on behalf of British Intelligence and asked to assemble a league of other extraordinary individuals to protect the interests of the Empire.

Following Angels cancellation, Spike immediately appeared in the Angel miniseries Spike vs. Dracula by Peter David, a sequel to the Buffy episode " Buffy vs. Dracula " and expanding on the characters ' century-old rivalry established in that episode.

King acknowledged the influence of Dracula on the work, as well as the violent, pre-Comics Code vampires portrayed in horror comics such as those released by E. C.

In it, players battle creatures based on a line of Todd McFarlane's action figures including classic movie monsters such as Frankenstein's monster and Dracula.

BBC Radio program compiled and presented by Philip Glassborow, including interviews with Andreas Brown of the Gotham Book Mart, actor Frank Langella ( star of Gorey's Dracula on Broadway ), Alison Lurie, Alex Hand, Jack Braginton Smith, Katherine Kellgren and featuring David Suchet as the voice of Gorey.

The idea of the ' reincarnated love ', first seen in universal's 1932 film, " The Mummy ", and utilized to great effect in Dark Shadows, was also seen in Curtis ' " Bram Stoker's Count Dracula " with Jack Palance, and was lifted wholesale from that for Coppola's version of " Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Mirkin, a " big " Peanuts fan, came up with the idea for the ending of " Bart Simpson's Dracula ".

It was here that the authorities designated an area of burial known colloquially as ' the Suicide Plot ' from which Bram Stoker derived the idea of the cross for his novel ' Dracula ,' the cross being the junction of Clonliffe Road and Ballybough Road.

The first 2 seasons of The Batman animated series as well as its spin-off film The Batman vs Dracula take various inspiration from Batman: Year One, including:

Stoker's posthumously published short story " Dracula's Guest ", known as the deleted first chapter to Dracula, shows a more obvious and intact debt to " Carmilla ": Both stories are told in the first person.

The first vampire-themed movie was made during this time: F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu ( 1922 ), an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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.

Birch was cast and scheduled to make her American stage debut in the off Broadway revival of Dracula, but was fired for reasons apparently involving her father's interference four days before the show's first performance.

Commissioned by Penguin books as a sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula for the centenary of the latter's first publication.

The Wallachian prince Vlad Dracul ( father of Vlad the Impaler ( Dracula ), who lived in exile in the town, let coins to be minted in the city ( otherwise coinage was the monopoly of the Hungarian kings in the Kingdom of Hungary ) and issued the first document listing the city's Romanian name, Sighişoara.

The Will o ' the wisp makes an appearance in the first chapter of Bram Stoker's Dracula, as the Count, masquerading as his own coach driver, takes Jonathan Harker to his castle in the night.

They are also usually associated with witches, wizards and vampires ; the best-known stage version of Dracula, which first made actor Bela Lugosi prominent, featured him wearing it so that his exit through a trap door concealed on the stage could seem sudden.

Dawn is first introduced as Buffy's ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) younger sister at the end of Buffy season five premiere " Buffy vs. Dracula ", though Buffy had been previously established as an only child.

The Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman — named after Anno Dracula ( 1992 ), the series ' first novel — is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which the heroes of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula fail to stop Count Dracula's conquest of Great Britain, resulting in a world where vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society.

A character named Marie Laveau, based loosely on the real Marie Laveau, figures into the Marvel Universe, first appearing in Dracula Lives # 2 from 1973.

" They liked what they heard and invited Dickinson down to the studio to make " Dracula ", the first song he would ever record, with a band called " Shots ", formed by two brothers, Phil and Doug Siviter.

After that, he moved to the court of his first cousin Vlad III Dracula and, in 1457, managed to receive 6, 000 horsemen as military assistance, putting them to use in a victorious battle against Petru Aron at Doljești, near Roman.

The first in the series, The Dracula Tape, is the story of Bram Stoker's Dracula told from Dracula's point of view.

The play used in the first season episode " Spykecam ", Dracula: The Musical, is a real play.

Lon Chaney, Jr. took over the part from Karloff in The Ghost of Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi portrayed the role in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, and Glenn Strange played the monster in the last three Universal Studios films to feature the character ( House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ); but their makeup replicated the iconic look first worn by Karloff.

As a result, Frank and Rachel did attempt a romance but due to Frank's later account, Rachel was an empty shell without Dracula to fight and the two shortly parted but not without deep regrets.