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 Few fictional characters have proven to
be as enduringly popular as the legendary
Count Dracula
 Morgan goes right back to the roots of
the vampire myth in ancient Babylonian,
Persian and Greek mythologies
 Will appeal to both film and literature fans
 Joins the ever-growing stream of vampire
movies feeding the insatiable blood lust
of vampire fans for new material…
DRACULA
GILES MORGAN
The subject of vampirism continues to fascinate and
vampirism from ancient Babylonian, Persian and
excite modern audiences and can be found in a range
Greek mythologies to its current manifestation
of film and TV titles such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer
iconically established in Bram Stoker’s gothic
and Underworld. More recently Elizabeth Kostova’s
masterpiece from 1897. Morgan ranges across the
best-selling novel The Historian draws heavily on
literary antecedents of Stoker’s Dracula and traces
Bram Stoker’s novel and Dracula appears as a
the impact it has had in contemporary film culture,
character within her story. Many have argued that the
from Nosferatu, through the Hammer horror films of
character of Dracula has greatest resonance within
the 50s and 60s to Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula
our own times and the current iconic status that the
and beyond.
world’s most famous vampire has achieved suggests
that they may be right.
£9.99 HARDBACK
In this Pocket Essential on Dracula, Giles Morgan AVAILABLE APRIL 2009
examines the roots of the vampire myth and ‘Crown Octavo’ Format (186 X 14mm) 160pp
RIGHTS: WORLD
ISBN13: 978-1-84243-315-7
Giles Morgan is the author of the Pocket Essentials
on The Holy Grail, Byzantium, Freemasonry, Saints
and Saint George. He currently lives in Harrow.
www.pocketessentials.co.uk/literature/dracula/
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