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...From Dracula by Bram Stoker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Is Dracula Really Dead? | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...devotees of Stoker's famed 1897 thriller and of the 100 or so horror movies it inspired,* Count Dracula's domain in Transylvania has long been a place of pilgrimage. Every year hundreds of Americans and Europeans visit Rumania for government-organized Dracula tours of spooky castles that were supposedly once inhabited by the Transylvanian ghoul. Many of the tourists who climb secret staircases and descend into the dank depths of dungeons wear bags of garlic round their necks-the traditional method of warding off the vampire's bloodsucking kiss. In the spirit of the occasion, local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Is Dracula Really Dead? | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...ghoul tours of Rumania are conducted tongue in cheek by the Ministry of Tourism. While not acknowledging the existence of vampires, it profits handsomely from indulging the fantasies of visiting foreigners. After all, as every vampire watcher knows, Dracula was zapped for all eternity when a stake was driven through his evil heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Is Dracula Really Dead? | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Coriolanus by Shakespeare/Beethoven. Directed by Peter Sellars. Jan. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 7:30 pm in the Loeb Experimental Theater. Tickets free at box office the day prior to the performance. Dracula lurks in wait for you. Thrills to go with the chill in the air, courtesy of Daedalus II, a new Boston drama company. Playing at 367 Boylston St., Boston Thursday and Friday at 8 and Saturdays at 7:30 and 10:15. Through Jan. 29. For info call...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: STAGE | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

Norma, his fantasy object, affects the accent of the Viennese doctor in Lugosi's Dracula as she discusses the "inner cheese of life." Just as self-consciousness leads Norma to make a joke out of the "energies of life," this whole book concerns Muldoon's discovery that the voice often masks the subject; action similarly disguises reality. Muldoon is aware that "unseen and mysterious forces" propel him. He recognizes that the Light--wisdom or maybe just balance--drawing him beyond the everyday world is as inevitable as the lure of the apple to Adam...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Alley-Catting, God Knows Where | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

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