How Dracula Created the Modern Vampire

8 November 2012 · The Christian Science Monitor

Matthew Shaer

Bram Stoker Estate account

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Shaer marks Stoker’s 165th birthday by tracing his Dublin background, theatre career and the novel’s afterlife on screen. The feature explains how Dracula helped establish the modern vampire tradition.

Christian Science Monitor, 8 November 2012. The displayed byline/date and relevant birthday feature were inspected. The summary concerns Stoker and the novel’s cultural afterlife; exaggerated biographical details in the source are not adopted.

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