"Dracula, the Musical Dracula, the Musical is a musical based on the original Victorian novel by Bram Stoker. The score is by Frank Wildhorn, with lyrics and book by Don Black and Christopher Hampton. It had its regional premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, California, in 2001, playing to 115% capacity, earning the highest paid capacity for any world premiere production in the playhouse's history. It then premiered on Broadway in 2004, starring Tom Hewitt as the frightening vampire Count and Melissa Errico as the woman he loves, Mina Harker. A brief nude scene in which Dracula seduces"
"Bram Stoker Abraham ""Bram"" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel ""Dracula"". During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876) from Dublin and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (1818–1901), who was raised in County Sligo. Stoker was the third of seven children, the eldest"
"Dacre Stoker Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American author, sportsman and filmmaker. Stoker was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is the great-grand nephew of Irish author Bram Stoker, the author of the 1897 Gothic novel ""Dracula"". He lived in his childhood in Montreal, Quebec and attended the Bishop's College School. He taught for several years at Appleby College. Stoker is a former member of the Canadian men's pentathlon team. He coached the team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Because of the Stokers' frustrating history with ""Dracula's"" copyright, Dacre, with encouragement from screenwriter"
"Doodle on Google's homepage commemorating what would have been his 165th birthday. An annual festival takes place in Dublin, the birthplace of Bram Stoker, in honour of his literary achievements. The 2014 Bram Stoker Festival encompassed literary, film, family, street, and outdoor events, and ran from 24–27 October in and around Dublin City. The festival is supported by the Bram Stoker Estate and funded by Dublin City Council and Fáilte Ireland. Bram Stoker Abraham ""Bram"" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel ""Dracula"". During his lifetime, he"
"South Carolina, where he is the Executive Director of the Aiken Land Conservancy. Dacre Stoker Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American author, sportsman and filmmaker. Stoker was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is the great-grand nephew of Irish author Bram Stoker, the author of the 1897 Gothic novel ""Dracula"". He lived in his childhood in Montreal, Quebec and attended the Bishop's College School. He taught for several years at Appleby College. Stoker is a former member of the Canadian men's pentathlon team. He coached the team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Because"
"well known. The first authorised film version of ""Dracula"" did not come about until almost a decade later when Universal Studios released Tod Browning's ""Dracula"" starring Bela Lugosi. Canadian writer Dacre Stoker, a great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, decided to write ""a sequel that bore the Stoker name"" to ""reestablish creative control over"" the original novel, with encouragement from screenwriter Ian Holt, because of the Stokers' frustrating history with ""Dracula's"" copyright. In 2009, ""Dracula: The Un-Dead"" was released, written by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Both writers ""based [their work] on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads"
"Dracula (1996 play) Dracula is an adaptation, first published in 1996, by American playwright Steven Dietz of Bram Stoker's novel by the same name. Though it has never run on Broadway, the author lists it among his most financially successful works, and it is frequently performed near Halloween in regional and community theaters. Closely following the plot of the novel, the play chronicles Count Dracula's journey to England, his stalking of two young women, and his pursuit and eventual defeat by the heroines' suitors and their associates. While all of Stoker's major plot points are present in Dietz's adaptation, they"
"The Man (Stoker novel) The Man is a 1905 Victorian novel by Bram Stoker, best known for ""Dracula"". A typical Gothic novel, it features horror and romance. ""The Man"" has also been published as ""The Gates of Life"". The Victorian Era, the reign of Queen Victoria from her coronation on 20 June 1837 to her death on 22 January 1901, is known as a long period of peace, prosperity and national pride for the British Empire. It was a bold transition from the Georgian era, largely defined by logic, rationalism and a progression towards romanticism and mysticism in religion, societal"
"Dracula (1924 play) Dracula is a stage play written by Hamilton Deane in 1924, then revised by John L. Balderston in 1927. It was the first authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel ""Dracula"". After touring in England, the original version of the play appeared at London's Little Theatre in July 1927, where it was seen by the American producer Horace Liveright. Liveright asked Balderston to revise the play for a Broadway production that opened at the Fulton Theatre in October 1927. This production starred Bela Lugosi in his first major English-speaking role. In the revised story, Abraham Van Helsing investigates"
"Years of alcoholism and his business failures likely contributed to his death. Six people were said to have attended his funeral. Horace Liveright Horace Brisbin Liveright (10 December 1883 – 24 September 1933) was an American publisher and stage producer. With Albert Boni, he founded the Modern Library and Boni & Liveright publishers. He published the books of numerous influential American and British authors. Turning to theatre, he produced the successful 1927 Broadway play ""Dracula"", with Béla Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan in the roles they would make famous in the 1931 film by the same name. Liveright was born"
"Bram Stoker's Dracula Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel ""Dracula"" by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. ""Dracula"" grossed $215 million on a $40 million budget. Rotten Tomatoes's consensus cited ""some terrific performances"", but Reeves' work has been widely criticized. It was nominated for four Academy Awards and won three for Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Makeup. Its score was composed"
"1897 novel ""Dracula"" and its unauthorised cinematic adaptation, ""Nosferatu"" (1922). Stoker identified his source for the term as 19th-century British author and speaker Emily Gerard. It is commonly thought that Gerard introduced the word into print in an 1885 magazine article, ""Transylvanian Superstitions"", and in her travelogue ""The Land Beyond the Forest"" (""Transylvania"" is Latin for ""beyond the forest"", literally ""across/through the forest""). She merely refers to it as the Romanian word for vampire: However, the word had already appeared in an 1865 German-language article by Wilhelm Schmidt. Schmidt's article discusses Transylvanian customs and appeared in an Austro-Hungarian magazine, which"
"as Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"", which also used the ""myth-making"" and story-telling method of having multiple narrators telling the same tale from different perspectives, according to historian Jules Zanger. ""'They can't all be lying,' thinks the reader."" The original 541-page typescript of ""Dracula"" was believed to have been lost until it was found in a barn in northwestern Pennsylvania in the early 1980s. It consisted of typed sheets with many emendations and handwritten on the title page was ""THE UN-DEAD."" The author's name was shown at the bottom as Bram Stoker. Author Robert Latham remarked: ""the most famous horror novel ever"
"Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973 film) Dracula is a 1973 British television film adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ""Dracula"" written by Richard Matheson and directed by ""Dark Shadows"" creator Dan Curtis, with Jack Palance in the title role. It was the second collaboration for Curtis and Palance after the 1968 TV film ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"". ""Bistritz, Hungary May 1897"": natives in Transylvania seem afraid when they learn solicitor Jonathan Harker is going to Castle Dracula. Jonathan finds the Count abrupt and impatient to get things done. Dracula reacts very strongly to a photograph of"
"Van Helsing addresses the audience with a warning that ""there are such things"". The Irish author Bram Stoker wrote the novel ""Dracula"" while working as a manager for Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre in London; he continued to work for Irving after it was published in May 1897. Stoker secured his theatrical rights to the story that same month by holding a staged reading at the Lyceum; this hasty adaptation was never performed again. In 1899, Hamilton Deane, a young Irish actor whose family owned an estate next to one belonging to Stoker's father, joined Irving's company. In the early 1920s,"
"vampire novel Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker. Despite the popular image of Count Dracula having a stake driven through his heart at the conclusion of the story, Dracula is actually killed by his heart being pierced by Quincey Morris's Bowie knife and his throat being sliced by Jonathan Harker's kukri knife. Bowie knives appeared in the classic works of Americans Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, Englishman Charles Dickens, and Frenchman Jules Verne. The Bowie knife has also appeared in television and cinema such as the largely fictional 1952 Alan Ladd film loosely based on the life of James"
"Dracula (miniseries) Dracula, also known as Dracula's Curse, is a 2002 Italian 2 part TV-miniseries written and directed by Roger Young and starring Patrick Bergin, Giancarlo Giannini and Stefania Rocca. It is based on the 1897 novel of the same name by Bram Stoker, though it updates the events of the novel to the present day. At a ballroom of a hospital charity party in Budapest, the successful American lawyer Jonathan Harker (Hardy Krüger Jr.) suddenly proposes to his girlfriend Mina (Stefania Rocca). He wants to marry her within the week. Their friends Lucy (Muriel Baumeister), Quincy (Alessio Boni) and"
"1878, Stoker met Henry Irving and they became friends. Two years later Stoker accepted a job to work as Irving's personal assistant in London. Stoker's first book, ""The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland"", was written in Dublin and published in 1879. His first fictional book, ""Under the Sunset"", was published in 1881. Stoker wrote many other novels and short stories; however, the author is best known for ""Dracula"". Stoker died of exhaustion at the age of 64 after writing a total of eighteen books. The novel's main protagonist, Arthur Severn, is traveling to the country of Clare"
"Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ""Dracula"". The expression ""Dracula"", which is now primarily known as the name of a fictional vampire, was for centuries known as the sobriquet of VladIII. Diplomatic reports and popular stories referred to him as ""Dracula"", ""Dracuglia"", or ""Drakula"" already in the 15thcentury. He himself signed his two letters as ""Dragulya"" or ""Drakulya"" in the late 1470s. His name had its origin in the Romanian sobriquet of his father, Vlad Dracul (""Vlad the Dragon""), who received it after he became a member of the Order of the Dragon. Dracula is the Slavonic genitive form of Dracul, meaning"
"follow, and the florid language seems stilted. Dracula (1996 play) Dracula is an adaptation, first published in 1996, by American playwright Steven Dietz of Bram Stoker's novel by the same name. Though it has never run on Broadway, the author lists it among his most financially successful works, and it is frequently performed near Halloween in regional and community theaters. Closely following the plot of the novel, the play chronicles Count Dracula's journey to England, his stalking of two young women, and his pursuit and eventual defeat by the heroines' suitors and their associates. While all of Stoker's major plot"
"Ian Holt, decided to write ""a sequel that bore the Stoker name"" to ""reestablish creative control over"" the original novel. In 2009, ""Dracula: The Un-Dead"" was released, written by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Both writers claim to have ""based [their work] on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition"" along with their own research for the sequel, though the plot and characters often directly contradict the original novel. This also marked Dacre Stoker's writing debut. ""Winnipeg Free Press"" reviewer Kenneth MacKendrick called it ""tempting enough to read and bad enough to"
"Horace Liveright Horace Brisbin Liveright (10 December 1883 – 24 September 1933) was an American publisher and stage producer. With Albert Boni, he founded the Modern Library and Boni & Liveright publishers. He published the books of numerous influential American and British authors. Turning to theatre, he produced the successful 1927 Broadway play ""Dracula"", with Béla Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan in the roles they would make famous in the 1931 film by the same name. Liveright was born into a Jewish family in 1884. He initially followed the career of a bond salesman. He married Lucille Elsas, the daughter"
"Dracula (1931 English-language film) Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code vampire-horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula. Produced by Universal, the screenplay is based on the 1924 stage play ""Dracula"" by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which in turn is loosely based on the novel ""Dracula"" by Bram Stoker. Renfield (Dwight Frye) is a solicitor traveling to Count Dracula's (Bela Lugosi) castle in Transylvania on a business matter. The people in the local village fear that vampires inhabit the castle and warn Renfield not to go there. Renfield refuses to stay at the"
"Dracula (1979 film) Dracula is a 1979 British-American horror film directed by John Badham. The film starred Frank Langella in the title role as well as Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence and Kate Nelligan. The film was based on Bram Stoker's novel ""Dracula"" and its 1924 stage adaptation, though much of Stoker's original plot was revised to make the film—which was advertised with the tagline ""A Love Story""—more romantic. The film won the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. In Whitby, England in 1913, Count Dracula (Frank Langella) arrives from Transylvania via the ship ""Demeter"" one stormy night. A sickly"
"Elizabeth Miller (academic) Elizabeth Russell Miller (born February 26, 1939) is Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She currently resides in Toronto. In her early academic career, she focused on Newfoundland literature, primarily the life and work of her father, well-known Newfoundland author and humorist Ted Russell. Since 1990, her major field of research has been Bram Stoker's novel ""Dracula"", its author, sources and influence. She has published several books on the subject, including ""Reflections on Dracula"", ""Dracula: Sense & Nonsense"", a volume on Dracula for the ""Dictionary of Literary Biography"" and, most recently, ""Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula:"
"The Book of Renfield The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula is a 2005 novel written by Tim Lucas and the first of the ""mash-up"" horror-themed novels that rose to commercial prominence later in the decade. It is an unofficial prequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Like the original novel, ""Renfield"" is an epistolary novel written in series of written documents. It focuses mainly on Renfield, mostly remembered for his minor role in ""Dracula"" as a lunatic that ate flies, rodents and other animals, and Dr. John Seward, the administrator of an insane asylum who is trying to understand Renfield's"
"Dracula (1958 film) Dracula is a 1958 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Jimmy Sangster based on Bram Stoker's novel of the same name. The first in the series of Hammer Horror films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, this original also features Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, along with Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, and John Van Eyssen. In the U.S. the film was retitled Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with the earlier ""Dracula"" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi, and the film was released in the U.S. in 1958 on a double feature"
"Batman & Dracula trilogy The ""Batman & Dracula"" trilogy is a group of three American graphic novels written by Doug Moench and penciled by Kelley Jones. The stories—""Batman & Dracula: Red Rain"" (1991), ""Bloodstorm"" (1994), and ""Crimson Mist"" (1998)—were published by DC Comics as a part of the Elseworlds line of comics. Moench created the concept for the first installment and convinced Jones, of whom he was a fan, to join the project. ""Red Rain""s eventual popularity resulted in DC commissioning sequels. Set outside the DC Universe canon, the trilogy begins with Batman discovering Count Dracula and his minions feeding"
"(1898). Although ""Carmilla"" is a lesser known and far shorter Gothic vampire story than the generally considered master work of that genre, ""Dracula"", the latter is heavily influenced by Le Fanu's novella. Stoker's posthumously published short story ""Dracula's Guest"" (1914), known as the deleted first chapter to ""Dracula"", shows a more obvious and intact debt to ""Carmilla"": (chronological) Carmilla Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" (1897) by 26 years. First published as a serial in ""The Dark Blue"" (1871–72), the story"
"John Seward John ""Jack"" Seward, M.D. is a fictional character appearing in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ""Dracula"". Seward is the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Count Dracula's first English home, Carfax. Throughout the novel, Seward conducts ambitious interviews with one of his patients, R. M. Renfield, in order to understand better the nature of life-consuming psychosis. As a psychiatrist, Seward enjoys using the most up-to-date equipment, including using a recording phonograph to record his interviews with his patients and his own notes. Several chapters of the novel consist of transcriptions of Seward's phonograph recordings. One of the"
"Blood for Dracula Blood for Dracula is a 1974 horror film written and directed by Paul Morrissey and starring Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Maxime McKendry, Stefania Casini, Arno Juerging, and Vittorio de Sica. Upon initial 1974 release in West Germany and the United States Blood for Dracula was released titled as Andy Warhol's Dracula. The film involves Count Dracula arriving in Italy to feast upon the blood of virgins, only to find difficulty with this due to the lack of virgins present in Italy. Filming began shortly after the completion of ""Flesh for Frankenstein"". Italian director Antonio Margheriti is credited"
"Dracula (Dell Comics) Dracula is a superhero comic book series published by Dell Comics, based on the literary and movie character Count Dracula. The book was part of a line of three superhero comics based on the Universal Monsters characters; the other two were ""Frankenstein"" and ""Werewolf"". ""Dracula"" lasted 3 issues from 1966 through 1967, numbered 2 through 4. (#1, published in 1962, was an adaptation of the 1931 film). In 1972-73, Dell reprinted the series, numbering them #6-8 (the reason for skipping issue #5 is unknown). Dracula is a modern-day direct descendant of the original Count Dracula now working"
"list of ""Hollywood's Most Powerful Vampires"", as well as ""The Guardian""s ""10 best screen vampires"". In honor of Syfy's 25th anniversary in 2017, the channel compiled ""25 greatest"" lists celebrating the last 25 years of all science fiction, fantasy, and horror: Oldman's Dracula was included in ""The 25 Greatest Movie Performances from the Last 25 years"". Bram Stoker's Dracula Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel ""Dracula"" by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor"