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Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death.

Dracula's Guest is a short story by Bram Stoker. "Dracula's Guest" follows an Englishman (whose name is never mentioned, but is presumed to be Jonathan Harker) on a visit to Munich before leaving for Transylvania. It is Walpurgis Night, and in spite of the hotelier's warning to not return late, the young man later leaves his carriage and wanders toward the direction of an abandoned "unholy" village. As the carriage departs with the frightened and superstitious driver, a tall and thin stranger scares the horses at the crest of a hill.

Die Entwicklung des Grafen aus Transsylvanien vom Sohn eines Kreuzritters zum Vampir. Als Kind hatte Vladimir die bösen Mächte entdeckt und mit ihnen ein stummes Bündnis geschlossen. Später kämpft er ohne Gnade. Erst als er von seinem eigenen Bruder enthauptet wird, beginnt sein "wahres Leben" - er wird in der Graberde zum Untoten, zum furchterregenden Vampir.Lucia, die Urenkelin des Arztes Lars Holmestad aus Whitby, erbt von ihrem Großvater die Aufzeichnungen seines Vaters. Tagebuchmäßig hat dieser die Erzählungen des Kapitäns der Demeter aufgeschrieben, nachdem er halbtot im Hafen von Whitby eintraf.