Dracula Character

Vampires have appeared in mythology and legends from around the world. The focus of fear, foreboding and fascination, vampires continue to haunt our fiction.

To commemorate the centenary of "Dracula," Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars. This book offers analysis of Stoker's original work, but also celebrates the influence this famous monster has had upon our literature and culture.

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Vampires have visited our nightmares, and lived in the darkest of our horror tales, but where does the literary history of these tales begin? Read on.