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Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (died 1912)

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Bram Stoker

Irish author (1847–1912)

Abraham Stoker, better known by his pen name Bram Stoker, was an Irish theatre manager and novelist. He is best known as the author of Dracula (1897), an epistolary Gothic horror novel that is considered by commentators to be a landmark in vampire literature. The work deeply…
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Count Dracula

Title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula

Count Dracula is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction. Aspects of the character are believed by some to have been inspired by the 15th-century Wallachian…
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