Still, in the novel the Count claims to be related to Vlad III and Van Helsing even conjectures that the two are one and the same. Despite being similarly bloodthirsty, the latter was more prone to having his enemies impaled upon stakes than to biting their necks and drinking their blood. Stoker named his Count after the historical figure of Vlad III Drăculea (or Drăculești, depending on the translation), voïvode of Wallachia (part of modern Romania) - or, as he is popularly known, Vlad the Impaler. Stoker wasn't the first to introduce vampires into western literature (see the "penny dreadful" - emphasis on "dreadful" - novel Varney the Vampire for one precursor also Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, which introduces lesbian vampires and The Vampyre, which was written by Dr John Polidori at the suggestion of Lord Byron, for the same writing contest in which Mary Shelley created Frankenstein), but his Dracula was the first to enter popular culture - the vampire known even by people not familiar with the book, or even the genre. Bleh!"įor the best reading experience possible, listen to this while going through the article.Īs Sherlock Holmes is to detectives, James Bond to secret agents, and Superman to superheroes, so is Dracula to vampires.Ĭount Dracula was created by Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel of the same name.
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