Dracula has considerable cultural importance. Stoker was not the first writer to make use of the vampire legend. Throughout the nineteenth century vampires appeared in a number of works, including Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla (1872), which Stoker read as a young man. But it is Stoker's version of the vampire legend that has had the most.....
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