He is only stronger, and has more power to work evil. The nosferatu doesn't die like the bee when he stings once. For all that die from the preying of the Un-Death, become themselves Un- Dead an prey on their kind, with the intention to drink the victim's blood.

They cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims. If anyone becomes such an Un-Death, there comes with the change the immortality. Quincey Morris, friend of Arthur Holmwood, goes hunting Main character: Draculaĭracula is an Un-Death Count, who lives in his castle deep in Transsylvania! He sleeps between sunrise and sunset in his grave or in a coffin filled with its native earth. Lucy Westenraa, friend of Mina and wife of Arthur Holmwood Van Helsing, very intelligent man, who lives in Amsterdam, friend of Dr. Jonathan Harker, solicitor, husband of Mina His studies of vampires, Vlad Tepes Dracula, and Transsylvania gave him the information and inspiration to write his most famous book. Bram Stoker used primarily Eastern European vampire lore of the time to create his novel. The tradition says, that a Vampire is an undeath daemon, similar to a bat. The myth of the Vampire takes root in the old slawian belief. In 1912, on 20 April, he died in London and was later cremated at Golden Green Crematorium, where his ashes remained. In 1908, Bram Stoker made an interview with Winston Churchill, which was published in the Daily Chronicle. After that, he wrote other books like *The Jewel of the seven stars* or *The man*. His most important novel was published in June 1897. In this year, he spent summer holiday at Whitby, which would become an important place in *Dracula*. In 1890, after making some American tours, he made first notes for what would become *Dracula*.

In 1875, Stoker published his first horror story, *The chain of destiny*, which appeared in the newspaper *Shamrock* in four serial parts. In 1870, following his fathers footsteps, he entered the Civil Service as a clerk in Dublin Castle.

He graduated with Honours degree in Pure Mathematics. He was an active speaker at the Philosophical Society, which eventually made him President. There he became University athletics champion, an unbeatable road runner and a good footballer. After a long incapacitating childhood illness he attended a private day school in Dublin, before having a successful career at the Trinity College in Dublin. How does one have to protect against Dracula?īram Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 in Dublin. First text passage: Jonathan's description of the count

Drakula by Bram Stoker