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Count Dracula

Bram Stoker, 1897 · fictional

Based on the author's description
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From the author's text

Mostly myth. The cape-and-charm vampire is modern polish. Stoker’s Dracula is older, sharper, stranger, and more animal than most screen versions.

What the author tells us

  • A Transylvanian nobleman-vampire from Stoker’s novel. The text gives unusually physical details: age, moustache, aquiline face, sharp teeth, hair, hands.
“His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils.”— Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)

What the author leaves to the reader

  • The exact face. Dracula is a literary construction, and later theatre and film changed him heavily.

Based on:

  • Stoker’s physical descriptions · late 19th-century dress

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Dracula · Bram Stoker
Author text

A Transylvanian nobleman-vampire from Stoker’s novel. The text gives unusually physical details: age, moustache, aquiline face, sharp teeth, hair, hands.

“His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils.”— Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
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