Bram Stoker's Dracula on this Day in History

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This day in history: Dracula was published on this day in 1897. The novel did not make much money for the author, Bram Stoker, who eventually went broke just before he died. The movies are what really made Dracula a star. He has appeared in more films than any other horror character—over 200 and counting—and that number doesn't even include comedies and cartoons.

Bram Stoker started writing Dracula right after the Jack the Ripper killings, but it may also have been influenced by a Romanian prince named Vlad Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler, who was known for skewering his enemies. The working title of the novel was The Dead Undead, which was later shortened to The Undead. Right before the book was published, Stoker changed the title to Dracula.

Watch Nosferatu

The 1922 German classic film Nosferatu was almost destroyed because of the Dracula copyright. Today, Dracula is now in the public domain.

Did you know: "Count Dracula’s reputation as a blood-sucking vampire is based more on fact than most people realize. The real Count Dracula was a prince known as Vlad the Impailer. He was a politician, in other words. He earned his nickname by beheading what the IRS would call “tax cheats” and impailing their heads on posts in order to scare the s_ _ _ out of other would-be 'cheats.'"

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/dracula-and-the-irs/

Christopher Lee Reads Dracula

See also History of the Terror Tale by Edith Birkhead 1921

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