More “disease” than “Dracula” — how the vampire myth was born Modern vampires like Nandor in "What We Do in the Shadows" are dashing, but weren't in original vampire myths ...

Count Dracula might have been an invention of the author Bram Stoker, but there is a real-life disease called acute intermittent porphyria that somewhat mimics the symptoms of horror’s scariest ...

Letter: Dracula's disease. Published 23 February 2011. From Rob Roy . I was surprised that in your otherwise excellent article about the basis for belief in vampires (29 January, p 40), Paul ...

Dracula: Colonized or Colonizer Although we shall never know for sure if Bram Stoker was indeed hinting at the evils of colonization in his now-famous novel, the breadcrumbs are there to suggest it.

People believed to be vampires in real life may have had a disease. ... But many modern notions of vampires started with the 1700s media frenzy and continued with "Dracula" and other tales.

This Count may not scare ya much, but Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors delivers on big laughs by a talented cast and one sexy beast in the middle of it all. The show runs through Nov. 3. –Rich Lopez ...

More "disease" than "Dracula" — how the vampire myth was born Modern vampires like Nandor in "What We Do in the Shadows" are dashing, but weren't in original vampire myths ...

The vampire is a common image in today’s pop culture, and one that takes many forms: from Alucard, the dashing spawn of Dracula in the PlayStation game “Castlevania: Symphony of the Night ...

More ‘disease’ than ‘Dracula’: How the vampire myth was born. Stanley Stepanic, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia. Oct 15, 2021 ...

The vampire is a common image in today’s pop culture, and one that takes many forms: from Alucard, the dashing spawn of ...

Modern vampires like Dracula may be dashing, but they certainly weren’t in the original vampire myths. Archive Photos/ Moviepix via Getty Images Stanley Stepanic, University of Virginia The ...