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...letters, written by Rossi while he was a young scholar at Oxford in the 1930s, contain a fantastical claim: Vlad the Impaler, a despotic 15th century prince who inspired Bram Stoker??s 1897 novel “Dracula,” really was a vampire—and really was undead...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Historical Study A-1972: Dragon Books and Dracula | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Although the young Rossi had dismissed Stoker??s “Dracula” as mere fiction—“useless as a source of information about the real Dracula”—our historian mulls over the very question of literary truth. Since Rossi believed Vlad the Impaler was actually a vampire, could “a novel...have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality?...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Historical Study A-1972: Dragon Books and Dracula | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Given the scope of vampire depictions throughout literature, “Lover Eternal” is more Nora Roberts than Bram Stoker??s “Dracula.” Ward seems to gleefully move from sex scene to sex scene, sparing no opportunity to make the reader as squeamish as possible...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: When A Vampire Met Mary | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...meals. Deacon Frost, the latest threat to humanity, wants nothing to do with such namby-pambiness and seeks to become the all-powerful vampiric avatar, La Magra. Blade, of course, is not big on plot; the movie’s true strength lies in its new-age rendition of Stoker??s saga with Marvel Comic elements. And the visuals of Blade pumping silver into vampire gut. Blade screens 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 and 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Happening :: Listings for the Week of Aug. 15 through Aug. 21 | 8/15/2003 | See Source »

...Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club was wise to schedule the current production of Dracula, Mac Wellman’s take on Bram Stoker??s Gothic novel, after parent’s weekend. Throughout, it is unsparing, unsettling and unwaveringly weird...

Author: By Emma Firestone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fangs for the Memories | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

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