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THE THRILL OF DRACULA 4 THE SECOND LIFETIME 39 What I Included 5 The Horror of Dracula (1958) 40 The Good Stuff 7 The Brides of Dracula (1960) 42 Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966) 43 THE BEGINNINGS 8 Dracula (1968) 45 Mythemes and Motifs 9 Dracula Has Risen From the The Dracula Atrocity Literature Grave (1968) 47 (1462-1568) 9 Count Dracula (1970) 49 Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) 51 Dracula (1897) 11 Scars of Dracula (1970) 53 Characters 11 Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) 54 Mythemes 12 Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1973) 56 Settings 14 Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974) 58 The Legend of the 7 Golden THE FIRST LIFETIME 15 Vampires (1974) 60 The Dramas 16 Count Dracula (1977) 61 Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) 63 Nosferatu (1922) 17 Dracula (1979) 64 Dracula: The Vampire Play Monster Squad (1987) 66 (1924, 1927) 18 Sundown: The Vampire in Dracula (1931) Sample20 fileRetreat (1991) 68 Drácula (1931) 22 Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) 69 Dracula’s Daughter (1936) 24 Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) 70 Dracula (1938) 26 Dracula 2000 (2000) 71 Son of Dracula (1943) 27 Buffy vs. Dracula (2000) 72 The House of Frankenstein (1944) 29 Dracula's Curse (2002) 74 The House of Dracula (1945) 30 Dracula: Pages From a Abbott and Costello Meet Virgin's Diary (2002) 76 Frankenstein (1948) 32 Blade: Trinity (2004) 78 Drakula Istanbul’da (1953) 33 Van Helsing (2004) 79 The Return of Dracula (1958) 35 Dracula 3000 (2004) 81 Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966) 36 The Batman vs. Dracula (2005) 82 Dracula (2006) 84 Dracula 3D (2012) 86 Dracula Untold (2014) 88 Sources 91 introduction 4 4 Sample file “For me, genre means an intensive, almost dreamlike stylization on screen, and I feel the vampire genre is one of the richest and most fertile cinema has to offer. There is fantasy, hallucination, dreams and nightmares, visions, fear, and of course, mythology.” —Werner Herzog introduction introduction 5 “You fools! Do you think with your crosses and What I Included your wafers you can destroy me? Me! You do not This book primarily deals with singular know how many men have come against me. I works about Dracula, especially those based am the king of my kind! You have accomplished on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). Its nothing, Van Helsing. Time is on my side.” criteria follow a pattern of expanding, —Dracula (Frank Langella), in Dracula concentric circles. From “inside out”: (1979) Cinematic adaptations of Stoker’s novel. Be welcome! This book is aimed at Films featuring Dracula and at least creators who want to play with the story, one other character in common with or myth, of Dracula. Such creators might Stoker’s novel, usually Van Helsing. include directors, authors, cartoonists, Films in the two major studio Dracula or especially roleplaying game masters cycles: the Universal Dracula series (GMs), even more especially GMs of (1931-1948; 2004, 2014) and the The Dracula Dossier, a campaign for Hammer Dracula series (1958- the vampire spy thriller roleplaying game 1974). Time and space constraints (RPG) Night’s Black Agents. prevented me from including the But anyone interested in the way the two straight-to-video sequels in the Dracula story has changed over the last Dimension Films “Dracula 2000” century – or centuries – can find something series, Dracula II: Ascension (Patrick to play with here, too. The Thrill of Dracula Lussier, 2003) and Dracula III: looks at forty versions of the DraculaSample myth fileLegacy (Patrick Lussier, 2005). – some direct adaptations of Stoker’s novel, Films incorporating or using Dracula and some seemingly completely irrelevant to interestingly, or introducing him it – and presents the changes those writers, into gameable genres. Also in this directors, and such have rung on the story category, films that insert Dracula into for their own purposes. Even a bad film can pre-existing vampire mythologies or highlight an interesting change – it’s often backstories. I tried to include only easier to use something from a bad source one of each general type, as hundreds well, if only because the bar is so much of films loosely fit this standard. lower! Use all these changes, the good and the ill, as examples of and encouragements for the changes you will make to the Dracula story, and even to Dracula..