While the Dracula character of the books was not a someone to be envied, he set the stage for today’s more complicated portrayal of vampires. While Dracula was eternally tormented, for the vampires of Anne Rice in the 1970s, vampirism was more of a state of being than a curse. For more modern vamp...

Dracula essentially invented the modern vampire mythos. Before the novel, vampires and vampire folklore mostly portrayed the creatures as pathetic mindless beasts which rose from the grave to feast on the living (in fact, they were much closer to what we would now understand as zombies). Although a ...

Abraham Bram Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.This was not so in Dracula, where vampirism was shown as a very specific affront to God, and generally unpleasant for everyone involved. Watch Skyfall Online | The Walking Dead Season...