But he is also a handsome Hungarian man in a tuxedo and cape. He is a balding, long-fingered, shadowy ghoul. He is a menacing spectre in a foreign castle. He is, as he is called in Bram Stoker’s 1897 text, the King Vampire. They cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world Abraham Van Helsing Dracula stars in more than two hundred films, appears in numerous television shows, has taken to the stage not only in drama but also musicals, ballet, and opera, features in video games and comics, and, of course, appears in many vampire fictions in addition to the original novel that bears his name. There are few names from literature and popular culture that are as well known as that of Dracula.
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