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The 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula was the pioneer in steering variousnarratives on vampires. Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula continues to evokethe creative fantasies of many artists working across theatre, cinema andtelevision. The latter mediums have played a significant role in the novel’ssuccess in the twentieth and the twenty-first century. The novel chronicles thebattle between Count Dracula and a small group of people led by ProfessorAbraham Van Helsing as the former attempts to move to England fromTransylvania, where he wreaked havoc for hundreds of years.An epistolary novel, Dracula’s narrative unfolds through a series of letters,diary entries, newspaper articles and telegrams.