Few writers have created works so powerful as to generate modern myths, but Bram Stoker's Dracula has eclipsed all previous vampire stories and inspired countless further novels, plays, films, operas, ballets, TV shows, video games, graphic narratives and even a breakfast cereal.
Those who know the story from later versions are often surprised by the novel's narrative form, though. The story is filtered through a variety of verbal media: journals, letters, newspaper stories, professional reports, recorded dictation and typewritten transcriptions. Why? So much of Dracula also draws on religious traditions, especially Catholic sacraments and sacramentals like crosses, holy water and the host. The undead immortality of the vampire is also a perversion of the eternal life promised through Christ's sacrificial blood.
Join Ohio State’s Department of English Faculty for a discussion on all these unique aspects of the classic horror novel and more.
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