... Lord Ruthven, modeled on Lord Byron. Still less did they believe the theory advanced by Stoker's best biographer, Harry Ludlam, who informed his readers that the idea behind Dracula came from a nightmare caused by "a too generous helping of dressed crab at supper one night," a nightmare in which Stoker envisaged "a ghoul rising from the grave to go about it's ghastly business." Nightmares, after all, have ... 's revenge. Destroying Danubian beachheads and port facilities was one way of gaining time to allow those succors he had asked for from the Christian camp to arrive. In the last-min...

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