Bram Stoker’s legacy, a century after his death

14 April 2012 · The Plain Dealer / Cleveland.com

Mark Dawidziak

Bram Stoker Estate account

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Mark Dawidziak marks the centenary of Stoker’s death by contrasting the Count in the novel with the romantic vampires of contemporary screen franchises. Rosenbach librarian Elizabeth E. Fuller discusses the surviving research notes and the time Stoker devoted to the book alongside his theatre work. The feature recalls how the Titanic disaster overshadowed news of his death, considers his other writing and traces Dracula’s changing screen image through Nosferatu, Lugosi and later performers. J. Gordon Melton reflects on the novel’s part in preserving Stoker’s name. The article’s value is its named expert testimony and its view of Stoker’s reputation in 2012, rather than its incidental television schedules.

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Max Schreck and Gustav von Wangenheim in Nosferatu (1922). A related period film still; not the Kino image published with this feature.Prana Film, 1922; public-domain still via Wikimedia Commons.