Adapted from Bram Stoker's novel, it was intended to be more faithful to the book than previous film adaptations.

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.

* 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 ).

He went on to create book covers, become a comics historian who published a pioneering two-volume history of the birth and early years of comic books, and to create conceptual art and character designs for films including Raiders of the Lost Ark and Bram Stoker's Dracula.

According to Bram Stoker's book, Count Dracula had an estate here.

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.

The book was published in 1911 by Rider and Son in the UK, the year before Stoker's death, with color illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith.

In the novel " A Matter of Taste " in the book series " The Dracula Sequence " by Fred Saberhagen the character Constantia calls Dracula ( who is very much the same Dracula of Stoker's story with all of his powers ) a Moroi.

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.

* Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ) uses not only letters and diaries, but also dictation cylinders and newspaper accounts.

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.

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 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 ).

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.

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.

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

He also wrote a rather poorly researched documentary titled Crow T. Robot's Bram Stoker's The Civil War, and created another called Let's Talk Women !, in which he denies the existence of women.

The name Shooter's Hill is also mentioned in Bram Stoker's Dracula although referring to the Hampstead area, some distance away, and also in H. G.

The studio has produced not only the films of Coppola ( including Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Tetro ), but also George Lucas's pre-Star Wars films ( THX 1138 and American Graffiti ), as well as many others by such cutting-edge directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio.

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.

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.

The 1993 MS DOS version of Bram Stoker's Dracula also used the mouse to aim the player's weapon cross-hair, similar to CyClones, but the player's viewpoint was controlled entirely by the keyboard and did not move with the cross-hair.

In some later books and movies Stoker's Count Dracula was conflated with the historical Vlad Dracula, also known as Vlad III the Impaler ( 1431 – 1476 ), who though most likely born in the Transylvanian city of Sighișoara, ruled over neighboring Wallachia.

They are also mentioned in Chapter 21 of Bram Stoker's Dracula, where Dracula has been sending moths for Renfield to consume.

References are also made to films such as Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Lost Boys.

This attempt resulted in the pair arriving in the outworld realm of Mordent, which bore striking similarities to the town of Whitby in Britain, also a setting for Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.

The Mega-CD port of Silpheed features polygon ships over a pre-rendered video background ; this method is also seen in other video game titles, such as Namco's StarBlade in 1991, Sony Imagesoft's Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992, and Micronet's A / X-101 in 1994 for the Sega CD.

A more faithful adaptation of Stoker's novel appeared as Dracula ( 1992 ) directed by Francis Ford Coppola though also identifying Count Dracula with the notorious medieval Balkan ruler Vlad the Impaler.

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

His employer, Knock ( Stoker's Renfield ), sends Hutter to Transylvania to visit a new client named Count Orlok ( Stoker's Count Dracula ).

From Bram Stoker's short story, " Dracula's Guest ", an Englishman ( whose name is never mentioned ) is on a visit to Munich before leaving for Transylvania.

Largely as a result of the success of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Transylvania has become a popular setting for gothic horror fiction, and most particularly vampire fiction.

They are: Elisabeta of Transylvania ( from Bram Stoker's Dracula ), 1448 – 1462 ; Ilona Szilagy ( Vlad III's real-life second wife ), 1466 – 1476 ; Marguerite Chopin of Courtempierre ( from Vampyr ), 1709 – 1711 ; Queen Victoria, 1886 – 1888 ; and Sari Gábor, 1948-1949.

* Nox Arcana recorded the album Transylvania based on Bram Stoker's Dracula.

* Vengeance by Proxy is a horror story updating the vampire myth to modern Eastern Europe and pastiching the story telling form of 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 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 ).

Though Stoker's Count Dracula remained an iconic figure, especially in the new medium of cinema, as in the film Nosferatu, 20th century vampire fiction went beyond traditional Gothic horror and explored new genres such as science fiction.

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 ).

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.

Ravenloft, set in a remote, mountainous land inhabited by superstitious peasants, Gypsies, and the Gothic castle of the vampire himself, mirrors the early, Transylvania-based chapters of Stoker's novel.

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