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Stoker's and vampire
Stoker's Dr. Abraham Van Helsing is a direct parallel to Le Fanu's vampire expert Baron Vordenburg: both characters used to investigate and catalyse actions in opposition to the vampire, and symbolically represent knowledge of the unknown and stability of mind in the onslaught of chaos and death.
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 ).
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.
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 ).
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 ).
Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ) has been the definitive description of the vampire in popular fiction for the last century.
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.
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 ").
At Christmas 2006, he played the vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing in a BBC adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
Of the film's cast, two actors had previously appeared in vampire movies: Udo Kier played Count Dracula in Blood for Dracula ( 1974 ) as well appearing in Blade ( 1998 ) as Dragonetti and Cary Elwes played Arthur Holmwood in Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ).
To Houseman's horror, Treasure Island was abandoned in favor of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with Welles playing the infamous vampire.
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.
Christian symbols and rituals traditionally play an integral role in many vampire stories, as in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
He then played a vampire hunter in Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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.
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.
The name of the vampire Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula was inspired by Vlad's patronymic.
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.
Nikolai Gogol, Alexandre Dumas, and Alexis Tolstoy all produced vampire tales, and themes in Polidori's tale would continue to influence Bram Stoker's Dracula and eventually the whole vampire genre.

Stoker's and hunter
A major character in most vampire films is the vampire hunter, of which Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing is a prototype.
A well known and influential vampire hunter is Professor Abraham Van Helsing, a character in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel, Dracula.

Stoker's and Abraham
When Hutter revives her, she sends him to fetch Professor Bulwer ( Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing ).
* 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 ).
Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character from Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.
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.
He does admit, however, to having " always had a soft spot " for Bram Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing.
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.
A major character in most vampire films is the vampire slayer, of which Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing is a prototype.

Stoker's and Van
Hugh Jackman played Gabriel Van Helsing, the eponymous hero of Van Helsing ( 2004 ), loosely based on Bram Stoker's character.
* 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 character of Professor Van Helsing in Stoker's novel, Dracula, is sometimes said to be based on Vámbéry, though there is no real evidence of this supposition.

Stoker's and was
Adapted from Bram Stoker's novel, it was intended to be more faithful to the book than previous film adaptations.
The first vampire-themed movie was made during this time: F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu ( 1922 ), an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
One of its lines Denn die Toten reiten schnell (" For the dead ride fast ") was to be quoted in Bram Stoker's classic Dracula.
Le Fanu was Stoker's editor when Stoker was a theatre critic in Dublin, Ireland.
Murnau's best known work was his 1922 film Nosferatu, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Although not a commercial success due to copyright issues with Stoker's novel, the film was a masterpiece of Expressionist artwork.
The character was a film noir antihero in every sense ; Gibson himself claimed the literary inspirations were Bram Stoker's Dracula and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's " The House and the Brain ".
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 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 irony being that none of that particular subplot was ever in Bram Stoker's Dracula at all.
* October 13 – Henry Irving, revered English Shakespearean actor and stage manager, who at one time was Bram Stoker's employer, ( born 1838 )
His success with this series was such that he was hired to write the novelization of the 1992 movie Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The company declared itself bankrupt after the film was released to avoid paying copyright infringement costs to Dracula author and Bram Stoker's widow, Florence Stoker.

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