When Bram Stoker wrote ‘Dracula,’ he drew from real folklore and mythologies surrounding the creature to craft his own version that would serve the purpose of his tale. When F.W. Murnau decided to ...
Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula was set in Whitby, featuring pieces of local folklore, including the beaching of the Russian ship Dmitry and Bram discovered the name ‘Dracula’ at the old ...
Orlok vs Dracula: To The Undeath! The short answer is Dracula, the quintessential 1897 vampire novel by Irishman Bram Stoker. The director of the 1922 Nosferatu changed the name of Stoker's ...
When the director F.W. Murnau and the producer Albin Grau approached the estate of Bram Stoker, hoping to adapt his seminal horror novel “Dracula” into a feature film in 1921, the author’s ...
However, the character of Nosferatu (Count Orlok) was inspired by Bram Stoker’s creation to the point of plagiarism. Dracula came first, with Stoker’s novel having been published in 1897.
Spawned from an attempt to avoid copyright infringement from Bram Stoker's Dracula, the Transylvanian vampire briefly made its way on screen in 1922 in Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror. Image ...