29 Facts About Dracula

Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897.

Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby.

Some scholars have suggested that the character of Dracula was inspired by historical figures like the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler or the countess Elizabeth Bathory, but there is widespread disagreement.

Dracula found the name Dracula in Whitby's public library while holidaying there, picking it because he thought it meant devil in Romanian.

Dracula is one of the most famous pieces of English literature.

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Dracula takes a ship for England with boxes of earth from his castle.

Dracula's is cursed to become a vampire after her death unless Dracula is killed.

Dracula dies from his wounds, at peace with the knowledge that Mina is saved.

Dracula was Stoker's seventh published book, following The Shoulder of Shasta and preceding Miss Betty .

Raymond McNally's Dracula Was A Woman suggests another historical figure as an inspiration: Elizabeth Bathory.

McNally argues that the imagery of Dracula has analogues in Bathory's described crimes, such as the use of a cage resembling an iron maiden.

Academic Elizabeth Signorotti argues that Dracula is a response to the lesbian vampire of Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, "correcting" its emphasis on female desire.

Farson writes that an inscription upon a tomb in Dracula is a direct allusion to Carmilla.

Stoker's earliest notes indicate that Dracula might have originally been intended to be a detective story, with a detective called Cotford and a psychical investigator called Singleton.

Dracula was published in London in May 1897 by Archibald Constable and Company.

In 1901, Dracula was translated into Icelandic by Valdimar Asmundsson under the title Makt Myrkranna with a preface written by Stoker.

Dracula's explains that, at the time of the novel's composition and publication, the "threatening degenerate was commonly identified as the racial Other, the alien intruder who invades the country to disrupt the domestic order and enfeeble the host race".

Dracula is a common reference text in discussions of Gothic fiction.

Dracula deviates from Gothic tales before it by firmly establishing its time—that being the modern era.

Dracula became the subject of critical interest into Irish fiction during the early 1990s.

Dracula is set largely in England, but Stoker was born in Ireland, which was at that time part of the British Empire, and lived there for the first 30 years of his life.

The Daily Telegraph reviewer noted that while earlier Gothic works, like The Castle of Otranto, had kept the supernatural far away from the novelists' home countries, Dracula horrors occurred both in foreign lands—in the far-away Carpathian Mountains—and at home, in Whitby and Hampstead Heath.

Since the 1970s, Dracula has been the subject of significant academic interest, evidenced by its own peer-reviewed journal and the numerous books and articles discussing the novel.

Early treatments of Dracula's appearance were established by theatrical productions in London and New York.

Gary Oldman's portrayal in Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and costumed by Eiko Ishioka, established a new default look for the character—a Romanian accent and long hair.

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Dracula has been adapted a large number of times across virtually all forms of media.

Dracula was not the first piece of literature to depict vampires, but the novel has nonetheless come to dominate both popular and scholarly treatments of vampire fiction.

Dracula succeeded by drawing together folklore, legend, vampire fiction and the conventions of the Gothic novel.

William Hughes writes critically of the Count's cultural omnipresence, noting that the character of Dracula has "seriously inhibited" discussions of the undead in Gothic fiction.