The 1897 Gothic horror novel
Dracula
was the pioneer in steering various narratives on vampires. Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula continues to evoke the creative fantasies of many artists working across theatre, cinema and television. The latter mediums have played a significant role in the novel’s success in the twentieth and the twenty-first century. The novel chronicles the battle between Count Dracula and a small group of people led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing as the former attempts to move to England from Transylvania, 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.