Dracula
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For the character with the same name, see Count Dracula.
Dracula is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. The novel was first published in England, 1897.
[edit] Plot
The young solicitor Jonathan Harker travels at Transylvania to sell a house to a nobleman named Dracula. He soon realizes that the Count is a vampire. Dracula traps Harker in his castle, and travels to England in search for Jonathan's fiancee, Mina Murray. He also preys on Mina's best friend, Lucy Westenra. Because of this, the other characters, led by Professor Abraham van Helsing, go on a mission to find and kill Dracula.
[edit] Most famous adaptations of Dracula
- 1922, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens|Nosferatu, a symphony of horror. First adaptation of the novel. Directed by F. W. Murnau. Max Shreck has the role of Count Orlok. They could not get permission to use the actual story from Stoker's widow, who ordered many copies of the film to be destroyed, after its release.
- 1931, Dracula. Horror, directed by Tod Browning and stars Bela Lugosi as Dracula.
- 1958, Horror of Dracula. Horror, stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula.
- 1979, Dracula. Horror, stars Frank Langella as Dracula.
- 1979, Love at first bite. Comedy, stars George Hamilton as Count Vladimir Dracula.
- 1992, Bram Stroker's Dracula. Horror directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gary Oldman as Dracula
- Dracula: Dead and Loving it. Comedy, directed by Mel Brooks and stars Leslie Nielsen as Count Dracula.
- Van Helsing. Stars Jugh Jackman as the title character, Gabiel Van Helsing, and Richard Boxburgh as Count Vladislaus Dracula.
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