* Jack Palance in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dracula ( original title ) ( 1974 )

* The 2006 film Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse features a character named Jacob Van Helsing, who is inferred to be a descendant of the original Van Helsing, although this is never actually stated outright.

The film was fairly faithful to Stoker's original novel, except that it portrayed Mina and Lucy as sisters.

Soon after the events presented in Bram Stoker's original novel, Dracula was defeated by Abraham Van Helsing and became the family's loyal servant.

Although disparaged by some critics, the film does restore a few elements of Bram Stoker's original character: The Count is introduced as an " icily charming host ;" he has command over nature ; and he is seen scaling the walls of his castle.

With Psygnosis they also did a video game adaption of Bram Stoker's Dracula, as well as other original productions like Puggsy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Although not a commercial success due to copyright issues with Stoker's novel, the film was a masterpiece of Expressionist artwork.

The origins of the word are from Stoker's novel, where it is used by the Romanian townsfolk to refer to Count Dracula and presumably, other undead.

The film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922, was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel ( for instance, " vampire " became " Nosferatu " and " Count Dracula " became " Count Orlok ").

Thomas Hutter ( Jonathan Harker in Stoker's novel ) lives in the fictitious German city of Wisborg.

Some scholars have suggested that she served as one of Bram Stoker's influences for writing the novel Dracula but the evidence to support this is slim.

At Christmas 2006, he played the vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing in a BBC adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.

The town also has a strong literary tradition and has featured in literary works, television and cinema ; most famously in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula.

She illustrated Bram Stoker's last novel, The Lair of the White Worm in 1911, and Ellen Terry's book on Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, The Russian Ballet in 1913.

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 mongoose also features in Bram Stoker's novel, The Lair of the White Worm.

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.

In Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, Count Dracula owns a house on Piccadilly.

The same month he played Count Dracula in a new adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic novel, produced by ITV Productions for BBC Wales.

Irving is thought to have been the inspiration for the title character in Lyceum manager Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

* In Los Sabios en Salamanca ( The Sages in Salamanca ), a Spanish short novel by Alberto López Aroca, included in the book " Los Espectros Conjurados " ( ISBN 978-84-607-9866-8 ), Challenger and his friend Lord John Roxton meet professor Abraham Van Helsing ( from Bram Stoker's Dracula ) in Salamanca, and attend a meeting of the Sociedad Hermética Española ( a Spanish esoteric society ).

In Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, the character Jonathan Harker visits Bistriţa and stays at the Golden Krone Hotel ().

Trilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the turn of the century era ( often known asFin de siècle ) after Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Hutter entrusts his loving wife Ellen ( Stoker's Mina Harker ) to his good friend Harding ( Stoker's Arthur Holmwood ) and Harding's sister Annie ( Stoker's Lucy Westenra ), before embarking on his long journey.

* Mina Harker, the main protagonist, and heroine in Bram Stoker's horror novel Dracula

Through them, Drake met Quincy Harker, the son of Jonathan Harker and Mina Harker whose tale was told in Bram Stoker's novel.

Wilhelmina " Mina " Harker ( née Murray ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.

Mina ( or a similar character ) has appeared in most film adaptations of Stoker's novel.

In From the Pages of Bram Stoker's Dracula: Harker, written by Tony Lee and endorsed by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt, Mina becomes bound to Dracula's spirit as his remaining allies attempt to use her unborn child as his new body.

Mina was portrayed by American actress Winona Ryder in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola film adaptation of the book, in which she is portrayed as the reincarnation of Dracula's centuries-dead wife, Elisabeta.

Ong Sor Fern of The Straits Times criticized Kostova's portrayal of women, writing that her unnamed female narrator " feels even more drab and colourless than Stoker's idealised female, Mina Harker ".

In Bram Stoker's Dracula ( Chapter 3 ), as Count Dracula recounts his genealogy to Jonathon Harker, he claims that the voivode who " crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground " was a Dracula.

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.

** Bram Stoker's Dracula ( Johnathan Harker ( Keanu Reeves ))

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

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.

Count Dracula is based on the character of the same name in from Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Further contemporary imagery of Halloween is derived from Gothic and Horror literature ( notably Shelley's Frankenstein and Stoker's Dracula ), and classic horror films ( such as Hammer Horrors ).

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

* Count Dracula, aka Vlad Dracula, from Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula

Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character from Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.

This was director Seth Holt's final film, and was adapted from Bram Stoker's novel The Jewel of Seven Stars.

Unlike Francis Ford Coppola, who revealed a surprising enthusiasm for horrific vampire tricks in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mr. Nichols shows no great gusto for the supernatural ... there are admirable performances from Mr. Spader, still turning the business of being despicable into a fine art, and Kate Nelligan, as Will's deceptively brisk and efficient wife ... Ms. Pfeiffer's role is underwritten, but her performance is expert enough to make even diffidence compelling.

For example, in 1993 Eiko Ishioka won an Academy Award for her costume designs from Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Its only film, 1922's Nosferatu, was its end: it declared bankruptcy in order to dodge copyright infringement suits from Bram Stoker's widow.

Further contemporary imagery of Halloween is derived from Gothic and horror literature ( notably Shelley's Frankenstein and Stoker's Dracula ), and classic horror films ( such as Hammer Horrors ).

Tiny ( George Tobias ), Stoker's manager, is sure he will continue to lose fights, so he takes money for a " dive " from a mobster, but is so sure that Thompson will lose that he doesn't tell the boxer about the set-up.

After completing work on his Bava magnum opus, Lucas ended his decade-long hiatus from fiction with The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula ( 2005, ISBN 0-7432-4354-4 ), a complement to Bram Stoker's Dracula that focuses on the character of Renfield and how the circumstances of his tragic past predisposed him to become the ideal pawn for the Lord of the Undead.

Count Dracula is based on the character of the same name in from Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The most popular cinematic adaptation of vampire fiction has been from Bram Stoker's Dracula, with over 170 versions to date.

* Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse ( 2006 ) – a direct to video release from The Asylum and director Leigh Scott with special effects by Almost Human Inc., the company who did creature effects for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The film is not a direct adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, but features elements from the novel.

The screening was preceded by a guest introduction by Marcus Hearn and a guest reading from Bram Stoker's Dracula by actor Stephen Tompkinson.

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.