🧛 Dracula

The legendary vampire count from Transylvania

Also known as Count Dracula, The Count, Vampire

📺 "Good evening, night owls. Tonight's guest has travelled all the way from the Carpathians, and he's brought his own earth. Mind your necks."

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Origin: Eastern European vampire folklore
First appeared: Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897 novel)
Classic film: Dracula (1931)
Pack: Universal Classics

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💀 Facts

Dracula can transform into a bat, a wolf or mist
Garlic, the crucifix and sacred wafers all keep him at bay
He must rest in earth from his homeland and ships fifty boxes of it to England
He casts no reflection, as Jonathan Harker discovers while shaving
Stoker took the name from Vlad III of Wallachia, but little else
Bela Lugosi played the Count on Broadway in 1927 before the film
Lugosi was buried in one of his Dracula capes in 1956

📜 Legend

Stoker never went to Transylvania. He built his Count from library research: travel writing about the Carpathians, Emily Gerard's essay on Transylvanian superstitions, and reports of the 18th-century vampire panics in Serbia, where villagers dug up corpses they blamed for deaths. Those folklore vampires were bloated, ruddy peasants, nothing like a cultured nobleman. Earlier stories such as Polidori's The Vampyre (1819) and Le Fanu's Carmilla (1872) had already given the vampire aristocratic polish.

🎬 The Film

Title	Dracula (1931)
Studio	Universal
Director	Tod Browning
Starring	Bela Lugosi
Makeup	Jack Pierce
Released	1931-02-12

🎞️ A Spanish-language version was shot at night on the same sets, with Carlos Villarías as the Count.

🎭 Myth vs Movie

True or false? Make your guess, then click a card (or press r) for the verdict.

In Stoker's novel, sunlight destroys Dracula.

✘ FALSE

The Count walks through London by day; sunlight only weakens his powers. Death-by-daylight arrived with the film Nosferatu (1922).
Dracula casts no reflection in a mirror.

✔ TRUE

Jonathan Harker cuts himself shaving when he realises the Count, standing behind him, does not appear in the glass.
Folklore vampires were pale, elegant aristocrats.

✘ FALSE

Eastern European accounts describe swollen, red-faced corpses of ordinary villagers. The aristocrat is a literary invention.
Dracula is a faithful portrait of Vlad the Impaler.

✘ FALSE

Stoker borrowed the name and a few lines of history from a book about Wallachia. Most scholars think he knew little of Vlad's cruelty.
A vampire must be invited in before entering a home.

✔ TRUE

Van Helsing explains that the Count may not enter a house unless someone within first bids him come.

🕯️ Quotes

“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!”
Count Dracula, Dracula (1897), chapter 2

“Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!”
Count Dracula, Dracula (1897), chapter 2

Lines come only from public-domain texts.

🃏 Stat Card

Strength: 8
Speed: 7
Cunning: 10
Dread: 10

⚡ Powers

Shapeshifting into a bat, wolf or mist
Command over wolves and rats
Hypnotic will
Stirring up fog and storms
Strength of many men

🧄 Weaknesses

Garlic
The crucifix
Sacred wafers
A wooden stake
Running water

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🎞️ Legacy

Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Son of Dracula (1943), with Lon Chaney Jr.
House of Frankenstein (1944) and House of Dracula (1945), with John Carradine
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Lugosi's second and final screen Dracula
Hammer's Dracula (1958), starring Christopher Lee

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