... a Brilliant and notoriously savage general who impaled his enemies on long spikes. The Prince also had a reputation for murdering beggars, forcing women to eat their children and nailing the turbans of disrespectful ambassadors to their heads (Voller, The Literary Gothic). The Name Dracula came from a historical text, the Count's original name was Count Wampyre. Allusions from the previous literary works, ... The Picture of Dorrian Grey and Beowulf are found through out the novel. Stoker also relied heavily on the conventions of Gothic fiction, a genre that was extremely popular in the ...

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