![]() ![]() ![]() Now there’s a new literary contender for the title of the essential vampire text. The cold-hearted aristocrat excited by the sight of blood as portrayed by Bela Lugosi seized the public imagination with the cinematic fangsters since owing more to the Hungarian actor than the fragile Irishman who wrote the original work. ![]() However, in 1929 Universal’s production of Dracula, based largely on the successful stage play from the time, established the image of the Count in the popular imagination. It is a product of its time, presenting newfangled technology such as the telegraph as a plot device. The Great Vampire Novel - originally published on The Momus Report.īram Stoker’s Dracula is a fascinating message in a bottle from a distant era, its concern with the vulnerability of the British Empire and racial miscegenation - is it any wonder the symbol of the vampire is so prominent in racist propaganda - echoing down through the decades since its publication. ![]()
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