'Dracula' Close to Original....
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In 1897, an Irish writer named Bram Stoker introduced to the world a horrific and hypnotic count named Dracula, whose nails were long and "cut to a sharp point," and who had "peculiarly sharp white teeth."
His book, Dracula was not the first work of English literature to detail the life and times of vampires: At least three others appeared prior to his. But Stoker's novel of Jonathan and Mina Harker, their stalwart friends and the wise Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, has become the definitive account of the haunted blood sucker.
It was an erotically romantic and gothic tale of moral and philosophical conflicts. It also was scary and frightening with its marvelous details of a man-creature who could slither down the side of a castle wall like a well oiled lizard. Today, it remains super high camp....
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