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.

* Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, is published for the first time.

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.

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 ).

Its related short story " Jerusalem's Lot ", is reminiscent of Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm.

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.

* 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 ).

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

Another is Bram Stoker's Dracula, which tells the story in a series of diary entries, letters and newspaper clippings.

State of Decay was in fact a rewritten version of a story entitled The Vampire Mutation which had been due for production during season fifteen, but had been hastily withdrawn and replaced with Horror of Fang Rock when the BBC decided that its vampiric theme would clash with their high-profile adaptation of Bram Stoker's Count Dracula, which was due for transmission at around the same time.

" Other references include another Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Lewis Carroll's long poem Phantasmagoria, and Bram Stoker's Dracula, which makes note of Count Dracula reading an " English Bradshaw's Guide " as part of his planning for his voyage to England.

* 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.

* Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ) – attempt at filming the story quite close to Stoker's novel, but merging the medieval story of Vlad Tepes ; starring Gary Oldman as Dracula.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula suggests that Renfield ( portrayed by Tom Waits ) was Harker's predecessor as Count Dracula's agent in London ; it is implied that this is the reason for his present madness.

In Stoker's original novel, Mina Harker recovers from the vampire's curse upon Dracula's death.

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.

For the 2006 film, see Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse.

The series mentions the events of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but deviates at the point of Dracula's defeat.

* 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.

It has been suggested from this that it may have been Stoker's intent that these two are Dracula's daughters, extending the sexuality metaphor of vampirism to incest.

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.

* Nosferatu ( 1922 ) – unlicensed German adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel ; featuring " Count Orlok ", a thinly veiled allusion to Dracula ; starring Max Schreck.

* Dracula: At one point, Rebecca says, " Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman ... they're vampires ", to which Angel replies, " I thought Frank Langella was the only performance I believed ..." They refer to three actors who have played Dracula, Lugosi in Dracula in 1931, Langella in 1979's Dracula and Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992.

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.

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.

Murnau's best known work was his 1922 film Nosferatu, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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.

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.

A well known and influential vampire hunter is Professor Abraham Van Helsing, a character in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel, Dracula.

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.

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

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.

Langella was nominated for two other Best Leading Actor in a Play Tonys: first in 1978 for the Edward Gorey-designed revival of Bram Stoker's Dracula and again in 2004 for Stephen Belber's Match.

Their first radio production was Bram Stoker's Dracula, with Welles playing both Count Dracula and Doctor Seward.