Dracula Vampire

myth:dracula_vampire

The vampire, codified: from Polidori's cold lord and Le Fanu's Carmilla to Stoker's Dracula — the undead foreign predator who drinks the blood of the living and spreads his curse like a contagion. Rooted in Vlad the Impaler and the vampire-lore of the Slavic and Balkan lands, the dead who will not stay dead. — genre history