'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house.' He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath. Yet even Count Dracula's unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan Harker, a young man from England, about his host. Little does Jonathan know that this is a land where babies are snatched for their blood and wolves howl menacingly from the forest, where reality is far more frightening than superstition. What's more, it's going to be up to him to stop the world's most bloodthirsty predator.
Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, travels to Castle Dracula in the Eastern European country of Transylvania to conclude a real estate transaction with a nobleman named Count Dracula. As...
String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker.
The notion that the Diogenes Club is an ancestor of Ian Fleming's Universal Export, a covert front for British Intelligence, comes from Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's script for The Privale Life of Sherlock Holmes.
In this retelling of the Bram Stocker classic, young Jonathan Harker first meets and then must destroy Count Dracula in order to save those closest to him.
Dracula: A Mystery Story
Dracula is a classic of Gothic horror, an undying wellspring of modern mythology, and an irresistible entertainment.
Below : This frame from Nosferatu shows the count on board a ship arriving in Bremen with a cargo of coffins . graph of Hutter's beloved wife , Ellen ( Greta Schroeder. 170 IN SEARCH OF DRACULA.
Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form, and the novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film and television interpretations.
The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commidity, digging through the populist ...