seven years

Wojciech KilarMichael Seifert

Another theory says that the writer himself admitted that after a meal of dressed crab in a fashionable restaurant in London on March 8, 1890, Stoker had a vivid nightmare about blood-sucking creatures and this spurred him to write Dracula.

This narrative continued into the second episode when Dracula told Agatha he is so afraid of the cross because he inherited it from all of the peasants he consumed, revealing everyone is afraid of the cross. He said: “Everyone does that’s the problem.

Lastly, Dracula can only be killed by decapitation followed by driving a stake through his heart. Upon death, his body turns to dust any vampires that were under his thrall return to their human selves.

Vlad Tepes was a brutal warlord in the 1400’s, and ruled his kingdom through fear. Vlad was enraged over the death of his wife, and proclaimed that he would sell his soul to have her back.

Traditionally, vampires fear religious symbols. There’s no evidence that Stoker got the idea to use the crucifix to ward off his vampires from folklore. Rather, it seems he invented the plot device from the not-then-uncommon concepts that vampires are agents of Satan and that the crucifix has sacred powers.

Dracula also feeds Mina his blood, dooming her to become a vampire should she die. Afterwards, he kills Renfield and destroys all of the copies of their epistolary except for one, which Dr. Seward kept in a safe.

Dracula comprises journal entries, letters, and telegrams written by the main characters. It begins with Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, as he travels to Transylvania. He then learns Dracula’s secret—that he is a vampire and survives by drinking human blood. …